Q: Who was Champ Davis? A: Long hailed as “Mr. Coast Line,” Champion McDowell Davis (1879-1975) spent more than 60 years working for the Atlantic Coast Line railroad, 15 of them as president. Although ...

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His plaque identifies him as “Railroad Pioneer and Health Care Philanthropist.” And as such, 35 years after his death, Champion McDowell Davis will get a star Thursday on Wilmington's Walk of Fame.

While Davis might not be the first place that comes to mind when thinking of the transcontinental railroad, you will get a new impression when you visit the UC Davis Library’s latest exhibition. It is ...

Andrew Russell, East and West Shaking Hands at Laying of the Last Rail. “The Race to Promontory: The Transcontinental Railroad and the American West” is an exhibition at Crocker Art Museum ...

Nearly two years after the Union Pacific Railroad Company sought relocation or closure of the railroad crossing on County Road 32A east of Davis due to safety concerns, work is getting underway on a ...

AVON Railroads they’re old and powerful. And what the railroads want, historically, they get.Every once in a while, the little guy – like the town of Avon – wants something, but if the big man in ...

ENGINEER DAVIS BLAMED; Coroner's Jury's Verdict on the Westfield Disaster. RAILROAD NOT RESPONSIBLE Mitigating Circumstances Found to Fa- vor the Engineer -- A State Railroad Commission Recommended -- ...

Case pits two small railroads that battled over freight service at McClellan Park. The loser in a $40 million federal jury award to Davis-based Sierra Railroad Co. plans to appeal. The jury Thursday ...

Stretching back to California’s pioneer days, Sierra Energy traces its roots to its parent company, the Sierra Railroad, which was established originally to ship gold and mining supplies from Oakdale ...

EAST LIVERPOOL – Another potential buyer found for the Columbiana County Port Authority’s railroad is planning to continue operating the railroad and use the right-of-way to run water lines to ...