Construction got a slow start in Omaha, Nebraska, eastern terminus of the Union Pacific Railroad. By April 1864 the jubilance of groundbreaking had long ago faded into the ether. Chief engineer ...

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There are now 9,000 miles of railroad in the United ... racing to meet the Union Pacific and complete the first transcontinental railroad. Union Pacific and Central Pacific officials drive the ...