The first thing you might notice about the restored locomotive departing from Old Sacramento is the billowing cloud of steam pouring out of the shiny, black engine, stamped with the name Granite Rock ...

This week marks 163 years since Cruz first broke ground on the first transcontinental railroad, and it all started here in what's now old Sacramento. And joining us this morning, we have Ty Smith from ...

Located about an hour’s detour away for travelers driving Interstate 5 between San Francisco and Los Angeles, present-day Tehachapi owes its existence to the railroad. While the Kawaiisu people had ...

California State Parks and the California State Railroad Museum Foundation are excited to present celebratory events to honor mothers, theWine and Cheese Zephyr train ride, and National ...

The upcoming closure of a train car service center on Mare Island will be a loss for Vallejo — but nothing like a shutdown more than a century ago of the Vallejo-based California Pacific Rail Road ...

As Michael Hiltzik considered writing a new chronicle of California, he examined the region’s past five centuries in search of a fresh perspective. “I pitched it as a look at what California had ...