After trying for more than a century, the Southern Pacific railroad finally has been able to establish a direct track line from the West Coast into Chicago. Southern Pacific Lines said Tuesday it ...

A historic machine shop built in 1904 by Southern Pacific Railroad as part of its railyard operations will be torn down, according to the city of Sparks. The massive brick structure on Nugget ...

And for well more than half a century, that railroad, the feared Southern Pacific, was California's dominant monopoly, able to shift business and government policies seemingly at will. Reformers ...