News-October 14, 2015; 7:50 PM ET. Progressively colder air will lead to the first snowflakes and snowfall of the season, as well as the first freeze in parts of the Great Lakes, Northeast and neighboring Canada this weekend.
It was 150 years ago that Abraham Lincoln signed the Pacific Railway Act of July 1, 1862, creating the original Union Pacific. One of America's iconic companies, today Union Pacific Railroad is the principal operating company of Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE: UNP), linking 23 states in the western two-thirds of the country by rail and providing freight solutions and logistics expertise to the global supply chain.
The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California was organized on June 28, 1861 by a group of Sacramento merchants known later as the Big Four (Collis P. Huntington, [Gov.] Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker); also called The Associates, they are best remembered for having built the western portion of the first transcontinental ...