The event marked completion of the first transcontinental railroad, connecting the nation ... prepared the first maps and reports describing the topography of the trails and passages from the ...

The Pacific Railway Act of 1862 was enacted by President Abraham Lincoln to garner federal support for construction of the transcontinental ... A map of the Union Pacific Railroad route in 1868.

maps and artifacts from across the nation. It shares the story of Utah’s contribution to the completion of the transcontinental railroad and the railway’s effects on the state. | Utah State ...

On May 10, 1869, the First Transcontinental Railroad was completed after nearly six years of construction, making travel and trade between the east and west coast easier than ever before.

The Transcontinental Railroad was completed 150 years ago, in 1869. In 1800s America, some saw the railroad as a symbol of modernity and national progress. For others, however, the Transcontinental ...

He explained that the placement of everything helped the team map out where the buildings ... documents — in a way that conveys the transcontinental railroad's significance.

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“If one argues that history is sort of a prism—that you look at the past in order to understand the present and the future—go no further than the transcontinental railroad,” says ...

Instead, in the 1860s, teams of Chinese labourers blasted through the granite and painstakingly hand-chiselled 15 shafts through the Sierra Nevada so that the first transcontinental railroad could ...