The Transcontinental Railroad

Title: The Transcontinental Railroad
Category: History | Words: 2021 | Pages: 8.6 (approximately 235 words/page)

The Transcontinental Railroad

On May 10, 1869, one of the most important achievements in the history of transportation was born. In Promontory, Utah, the completion of the transcontinental railroad marked the beginning of a new era in moving the nation. Two rival railroad companies, Union Pacific and Central Pacific, with the help of the government, worked together and completed the famous route in just less than seven years. The development of the transcontinental railroad that connected the United States significantly …showed first 75 words of 2021 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 2021 total…Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. Bain, David Haward. Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad. New York: Viking, 1999. Brown, Dee. Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow. New York: Holt, 1977. De Golyer, Everett L., Jr. The Track Going Back: A Century of Transcontinental Railroading, 1869-1969. Amon Carter, 1979. Dillon, Sidney. “Historic Moments: Driving the Last Spike of the Union Pacific.” Scribner’s Magazine, August 1892. Warman, Cy, “Tales of an Engineer.” Scribner’s Magazine, June 1895.

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