Hill, who built a transportation empire that began with the monumental con­struction of his transcontinental ... Hill and the Great Northern Railway is available to stream on pbs.org and the ...

A bronze plaque identifies it as a re-creation of the “Laurel Tie,” the ceremonial final crossbeam laid in Utah to complete the Transcontinental ... railroad workers on the Great Northern ...

With the completion of its great railroad, America gave birth to a transcontinental culture ... 1900 a number of routes ran parallel — the Northern Pacific and Southern Pacific among them ...