The First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States was built across North America in the 1860s, linking the railway network of the Eastern United States with California on the Pacific coast. Ceremonially completed on May 10, 1869, at the famous "golden spike" event at Promontory Summit, Utah, it created a nation-wide mechanized transportation network that revolutionized the population and economy of the American West. This network caused the wagon trains of previous decades to become obsolete, exchanging it for a modern transportation system. Authorized by the Pacific Railway Act of 1862 and heavily backed by the federal government, it was the culmination of a decades-long movement to build such a line and was one of the crowning achievements of the presidency of Abraham Lincoln, completed four years after his death. The building of the railway required enormous feats of engineering and labor in the crossing of plains and high mountains by the Union Pacific Railroad and Central Pacific Railroad, the two privately chartered federally backed enterprises that built the line westward and eastward respectively.
No. The English have nowhere to build a transcontinental railroad; they are on an island. The US was the first to begin such a railroad - aptly named the First Trascontinental Railroad - and the Russians soon followed with the Trans-Siberian Railway.
The first transcontinental railroad was funded with government money.
The First Transcontinental Railroad opened for traffic on May 10, 1869.
The construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad started in 1863 and was finished in 1869. When it was first completed, it was known as the Pacific Railroad.
Theodore Judah was the first chief engineer of what became the transcontinental railroad.
It was the Transcontinental Railroad.
The First Transcontinental Railroad spanned from Council Bluffs, Iowa/Omaha, Nebraska to Alameda, California.
the first transcontinental railroad met in the middle at Promontory Point ,Utah
Chinese Immigrants played a major role in building the first transcontinental railroad.
The celebration commemorating the completion of the first transcontinental railroad was held at Promontory, Utah on May 10, 1869.
Yes Abraham Lincoln did get employed for help building the first transcontinental railroad
The first Trancontinental Railroad was most likely black with gold.