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The document endorses Central Pacific efforts to build the California line while simultaneously chartering a Union Pacific Railroad Company to build west from the Missouri River. The bill grants ...

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The idea is preposterous that the immense produce of the West could be transported from the great lakes to the seaboard without the aid of the enlarged Erie Canal, and further, no railroad can ...

It provided government support for the building of first railroad to link the east and west coasts of the U.S.A. In order to encourage the railroad companies to build the transcontinental railways ...

The role that Chinese immigrants played in building the Transcontinental Railroad has long been buried ... two mighty locomotives from East and West meet at Promontory Summit, Utah. Engineers shake ...

Money flowed into the government's coffers and now Macdonald had the capital to extend the railroad across the prairies to British Columbia. Soon, the trickle of settlers heading west became a flood.

Educational exhibits show how railways expanded the West and chronicle their ... role of women and Chinese workers in building the transcontinental railroad. There are also exhibits on toy trains ...

The document endorses Central Pacific efforts to build the California line while simultaneously chartering a Union Pacific Railroad Company to build west from the Missouri River. The bill grants ...