Lathrop and Tracy share the same bloodline — the engineer who Leland Stanford hired to lay out the Central Pacific Railroad tracks in the valley.

The Ione Valley in Amador County, California, was originally part of the region occupied by the Plains and Sierra Miwok and ...

The notorious Central Pacific Railroad riveted the attention of two great American writers: Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris. Drabelle tells a classic story of corporate greed vs. the power of the pen.

Between 1863 and 1869, the first transcontinental line, known as the Pacific Railroad, was built in the United States. The line ran from Omaha, Nebraska, to Sacramento, California, and carried ...