A transcontinental railroad or transcontinental railway is contiguous railroad trackage, that crosses a continental land mass and has terminals at different...
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America's first transcontinental railroad (known originally as the "Pacific Railroad" and later as the "Overland Route") was a 1,911-mile (3,075 km) continuous...
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Pacific is the second largest railroad in the United States after BNSF, with which it shares a duopoly on transcontinental freight rail lines in the Western...
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the "First transcontinental railroad" in North America. Incorporated in 1861, CPRR ceased independent operations in 1885 when the railroad was leased...
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where the U.S. wanted to build a transcontinental railroad along a deep southern route, which the Southern Pacific Railroad later completed in 1881–1883....
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First transcontinental railroad, United States, 1869 Ford Transcontinental, a truck manufactured by Ford of Britain National Transcontinental Railway...
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growth. Railroads not only increased the speed of transport, they also dramatically lowered its cost. For example, the first transcontinental railroad resulted...
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the first transcontinental railroad was built, to join California with the rest of the national network, at a connection in Iowa. Railroads expanded throughout...
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Pacific Railroad Acts of 1862 were a series of acts of Congress that promoted the construction of a "transcontinental railroad" (the Pacific Railroad) in...
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The National Transcontinental Railway (NTR) was a historic railway between Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Moncton, New Brunswick, in Canada. Much of the line...
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Manifest destiny (section Transcontinental railroad)
an important role in the development of the transcontinental railroad.[when?] The transcontinental railroad system is often used in manifest destiny imagery...
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Niles Canyon Railway (category Heritage railroads in California)
Canyon Railway (NCRy) is a heritage railway running on the first transcontinental railroad alignment (1866, 1869) through Niles Canyon, between Sunol and...
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American frontier (section Transcontinental railroads)
their land from railroads at low rates. The Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 provided for the land needed to build the transcontinental railroad. The land was...
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through the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains of the First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States, built from the mid-continent at the Missouri...
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Bay, the westernmost portion of the First transcontinental railroad. After the completion of the railroad from Sacramento to Alameda Terminal on September...
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were joined in Utah on May 10, 1869, hence creating the first transcontinental railroad in North America. Interstate 80, built in the 1950s, paralleled...
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the construction of the transcontinental telegraph History of the first transcontinental telegraph Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum:...
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trails between 1843 and 1869, and despite growing competition from transcontinental railroads, some use even continued into the early 20th century. The major...
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History of Chinese Americans (redirect from Chinese Railroad Workers)
Central Pacific Railroad recruited large labor gangs, many on five-year contracts, to build its portion of the transcontinental railroad. The Chinese laborers...
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Western television series about the construction of the first transcontinental railroad across the United States, which broadcast in the United States...
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Golden spike (category First transcontinental railroad)
first transcontinental railroad across the United States connecting the Central Pacific Railroad from Sacramento and the Union Pacific Railroad from Omaha...
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follows the historical routes of the California Trail, first transcontinental railroad and Feather River Route throughout portions of Nevada. Throughout...
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Collis Potter Huntington (category 19th-century American railroad executives)
Theodore Judah's idea to build the Central Pacific Railroad as part of the first U.S. transcontinental railroad. Huntington helped lead and develop other major...
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Charles Crocker (category 19th-century American railroad executives)
westernmost portion of the first transcontinental railroad, and took control with partners of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Crocker was born in Troy, New...
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Crédit Mobilier scandal (redirect from Credit Mobilier railroad scandal)
Pacific Railroad and the Crédit Mobilier of America construction company in the building of the eastern portion of the first transcontinental railroad from...
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Union Pacific Big Boy (category Union Pacific Railroad locomotives)
to operating condition for the 150th anniversary of the first transcontinental railroad. It thus regained the title as the largest and most powerful operating...
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separate destinations. Use of the trail declined after the first transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869, making the trip west substantially faster...
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The Transcontinental Railroad Grade is a section of railway in northwest Utah, near Corinne, Utah, which was listed on the National Register of Historic...
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Great Northern Railway (U.S.) (redirect from Great northern transcontinental railway)
developed from the Saint Paul & Pacific Railroad. The Great Northern's route was the northernmost transcontinental railroad route in the U.S. In 1970, the Great...
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The Gould transcontinental system was a system of railroads assembled by George Jay Gould I and the Fuller Syndicate in the early 1900s. This was Gould's...
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