Harper's Weekly reported on the progress of the transcontinental railroad ... and cabinet work for the use of the railroad offices and buildings along the track. In the forging and casting ...

Asa Whitney presents a resolution in Congress endorsing the funding of a railroad to the Pacific ... July: Casement crews add 60 miles of track to bring the Union Pacific line to the 100 mile ...

Canada already had two transcontinental railroads, the Canadian Pacific and the Canadian Northern, so why not a third?

1869 obituary for a Chinese man, Wan Lee But the transcontinental railroad triggers a mass migration to the Great Plains. The farmers and cowboys are the next wave to try to tame the wilderness either ...

because of the tracks. Canada already had two transcontinental railroads, the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Canadian Northern Railway, so why not a third? There were two main reasons the ...