A woman escaped without injury after her vehicle became stuck at a railroad crossing in eastern Contra Costa County as a train was approaching Sunday, officials said. Shortly after 5:30 p.m ...

San Francisco kept its streetcars, the only Bay Area city to do so. The Southern Pacific railroad, which had begun running ...

Travelers could make the trip between San Francisco and New York in a week. No longer did passengers or cargo have to take the treacherous route across ocean and Panama that had killed railroad ...