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	First Transcontinental Railroad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States was built across North America in the 1860s, linking the railway network of the eastern U.S. with California on the Pacific coast.
		This line was not the first railroad to connect the Atlantic with the Pacific; that honor goes to the Panama Railway, a 48 mile (77 km) long line across Panama, completed in 1855.
		He was not the first or only man of his time to conceive of a railroad running across the frontier from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast, but he was the first to lead a team of eight men in June 1845 along the proposed route.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/First_Transcontinental_Railroad_(North_America) (2300 words)

	Union Pacific Railroad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Union Pacific Railroad was incorporated on July 1, 1862 in the wake of the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862.
		They were part of the railroads which came together at Promontory Summit, Utah in 1869 as the first transcontinental railroad in North America.
		The railroad's early troubles led to bankruptcy during the 1870s, the result of which was reorganization of the Union Pacific Railroad as the Union Pacific Railway on January 24, 1880.
	www.secaucus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Union_Pacific_Railroad (2306 words)

	railroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A railroad or railway is a guided means of land transport, designed to be used by trains, both passengers and freight are transported on railways.
		The first steam locomotive to operate on tracks, built by Richard Trevithick was operated in 1804 In Wales, although it was not fianancially successful.
		The first successful steam operated railway was the Stockton and Darlington Railway in northern England in the 1820s.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Railroad.html (1101 words)

	Railroad - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The first steam locomotive to operate on tracks, built by Richard Trevithick was operated in 1804 in Wales, although it was not financially successful.
		Railways soon spread throughout Britain and through the world, and became the dominant means of land transport for nearly a century, until the invention of aircraft and automobiles, which prompted a gradual decline in railways.
		However, railroad has been used historically in Britain and a number of American companies have railway in their names instead of railroad (the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway being the most pre-eminent modern example).
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /railroad.htm (1807 words)

	Transcontinental railroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Americas: The first transcontinental railroad was the Panama Railway, completed in 1855, near the narrowest point on the continent.It is 48 miles long.
		North America: The first North American transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869, after track was laid over a 1,700 mile (2,700 km) gap between Sacramento, California and Omaha, Nebraska in six years.
		Asia: The first Asian transcontinental railroad was the Trans-Siberian railway (with connecting lines in Europe), completed in 1905.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/transcontinental_railroad (208 words)

	1869 in rail transport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		May 10 - The golden spike is driven at Promontory Summit, Utah, on the First Transcontinental Railroad in North America.
		May 15 - The first trains operate the entire length of the First Transcontinental Railroad in North America traveling between Omaha, Nebraska and Sacramento, California.
		The first railroad built in New Jersey, the Camden and Amboy Railroad, is merged into the.
	www.bexley.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1869_in_rail_transport (468 words)

	Rail transport - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A railroad or railway is a guided means of land transport, designed for trains to use for transporting both passengers and freight.
		Like other forms of public transport, railroads are having to make considerable investment in order to meet new requirements for security in the face of recent terrorism incidents.
		The United States inaugurated its first railroad, the Baltimore and Ohio, in 1827.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Railway (1477 words)

	Golden Spike Rant. Roadside America
		The US transcontinental railroad was completed when a golden spike was driven at Promontory Summit, Utah, linking East and West on May 10, 1869.
		The first continuous chain of rails from ocean to ocean met in a dry creek bed named Comanche Crossing by the undersung Kansas Pacific Railroad.
		North Platte visitors will be paying that tax for decades, but they'll also benefit by gazing on the golden spike tower no matter where in town they're sleeping....
	www.roadsideamerica.com /set/HISTspike.html (690 words)

	Today in History: May 10
		The Corps of Discovery, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, generated the first maps and reports to describe the topography of the trails and passages which led from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.
		Between 1860 and 1890 the miles of railroad track interlacing the U.S. rose from 30,000 to 270,000, and the population leapt from 31,000,000 to over 76,000,000 people, many of whom were recent immigrants.
		Railroad Maps, 1828-1900 presents maps which reveal the development of cartographic style and technique, and highlight the achievement of early railroaders.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/may10.html (2111 words)

	Bambooweb: Union Pacific
		The Union Pacific Railroad is the largest railroad in the United States.
		The Union Pacific Railroad was established in the wake of the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862.
		They were part of the railroads which came together at Promontory Summit, Utah in 1869 as the first transcontinental railroad in North America, and were entangled Credit Mobilier scandal of 1872.
	www.bambooweb.com /articles/u/n/Union_Pacific.html (765 words)

	First Transcontinental Railroad Usa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States was built across North America in the 1860s,...
		The opening of the first transcontinental road was an important factor.
		The development of the first Transcontinental Railroad in the United States GJ "Chris" Graves, Resident Scholar.
	cards-2.loan-directories.com /first-transcontinental-railroad-usa.htm (253 words)

	Learn more about Timeline of railway history in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		1825 Stephenson's Stockton and Darlington Railway, the world's first steam operated railway opens, carrying freight from a Colliery to a river port.
		1853 Indianapolis' Union Station, the first "union station" in the world, opened by the Terre Haute & Richmond, Madison & Indianapolis, and Bellefontaine railroads.
		1869 The First Transcontinental Railroad (North America) completed across the United States.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /t/ti/timeline_of_railway_history.html (539 words)

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		The men who joined their fortunes and fates in 1861 to build the Central Pacific railroad, the Western part of the first American transcontinental line, would later be known as the “Pacific Quartet” or “The Big Four”, the richest and most powerful group of capitalists on the Pacific Coast of the United States.
		Although many people know about the Union Pacific and the construction of the first American transcontinental railroad, few are familiar with the Credit Mobilier of America, the scheme that allowed its promoters to make millions by defrauding the public funds allocated to the railroad.
		The Union Pacific Railroad had a difficult start after the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 chartered the company to build the main part of the transcontinental railroad.
	www.mail-archive.com /ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg81526.html (1069 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Empire Express : Building the First Transcontinental Railroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		David Haward Bain's exhaustive work on the Transcontinental Railroad is probably the most complete novel on the subject with 711 pages of text but I would not recommend it to the casual non-fiction reader.
		In "Empire Express" author David Haward Bain tells the story of the building of the transcontinental railroad, from the original evangelizing of the idea by Asa Whitney in the early 19th century to the Credit Mobilier scandal that engulfed Congress in the wake of the railroad's completion during the second Grant administration.
		In tracing the evolution of the dream to build a transcontinental railroad from conception to completion in a single volume narrative history, Bain tackles a subject nearly as daunting as the original project itself.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/067080889X?v=glance (2675 words)

	Central Pacific Railroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It was created to build the First transcontinental railroad (North America).
		January 8 1863: Ground is broken on the Central Pacifics first day of construction in Sacramento, CA June 3 1864: The first revenue train on the Central Pacific operates between Sacramento, CA and Newcastle, CA April 28 1869: Track crews on the Central Pacific lay 10 miles of track in one day.
		May 15 1869: The first transcontinental trains are run over the new line to Sacramento, CA.
	read-and-go.hopto.org /Nevada-railroads/Central-Pacific-Railroad.html (181 words)

	The First Transcontinental Railroad (Part 1)
		Judah was obsessed with building a transcontinental railroad and convinced merchants Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, Mark Hopkins, and Collis P. Huntington, forever known as The Big Four, to invest in a railroad.
		Crocker insisted, and the first gang of fifty was hired.
		The first nitroglycerin factory was built near Donner Lake, which had become necessary in blasting the tunnel.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/old_west/27482 (1145 words)

	Union Pacific Railroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		James R. Young/ is president and chief operating officer of the Railroad.
		It has achieved this size thanks to purchasing a large number of other railroads; notable purchases include the Missouri Pacific, Chicago and Northwestern, Western Pacific RailroadWestern Pacific and Southern Pacific RailroadSouthern Pacific (which itself was purchased by the Denver and Rio Grande Western RailroadRio Grande/ before UP purchased it).
		The Union Pacific Railroad was incorporated on July 1, 1862 in the wake of the Pacific Railway ActsPacific Railroad Act of 1862.
	www.infothis.com /find/Union_Pacific_Railroad (2063 words)

	Union Pacific World Encyclopedia, India encyclopedia, Featured Articles, Cover Stories, World wide Informations @ ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Union Pacific Railroad NYSE: UNP is the largest railroad in the United States.
		James R. Young is president and chief operating officer and Richard "Dick" K. Davidson is the CEO of the Railroad.
		It has achieved this size thanks to purchasing a large number of other railroads; notable purchases include the Missouri Pacific, Chicago and North Western, Western Pacific, Missouri-Kansas-Texas, and Southern Pacific (which itself was purchased by the Rio Grande before UP purchased it).
	www.mirchigold.com /index.php?title=Union_Pacific (2849 words)

	First Transcontinental Railroad (North America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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	North America transcontinental railroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The first transcontinental railroad built in the late 1860 and was completed in 1869 by Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroad companies.
		To connect it with the Pacific coast the Central Pacific Railroad was built from Sacramento, California eastward (laid 690 miles of track) and the Union Pacific Railroad from Omaha westward (laid 1086 miles of track), until they met at Promontory Summit in the Utah Territory.
		The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches.
	www.nrg.to /taile/transcontinental.html (170 words)

	Pacific Railway Acts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Pacific Railway Act of 1862 gave land grants in the Western United States to the Union Pacific Railroad and Central Pacific Railroad (later the Southern Pacific Railroad) to construct a transcontinental railroad.
		The act granted 10 square miles (26 km²) of public land on each side of the tracks for every mile laid.
		Text of the Pacific Railroad Acts (at the Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum) (http://CPRR.org/Museum/Pacific_Railroad_Acts.html)
	www.newlenox.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Pacific_Railroad_Act (158 words)

	Laramie, Wyoming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Laramie, located in southeast Wyoming, on the Laramie River, is northwest of Cheyenne, WyomingCheyenne, and first settled in 1868.
		Laramie was important stop on the Overland Trail and First transcontinental railroad (North America)transcontinental railroad in the late 19th century.
		The city emerged into national prominence in 1998 after the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard, a student at the University of Wyoming.
	www.infothis.com /find/Laramie,_Wyoming (793 words)

	Promontory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Especially: (a) the projecting angle of the ventral side of the sacrum where it joins the last lumbar vertebra; (b) a prominence on the inner wall of the tympanum of the ear.
		The first Transcontinental Railroad in North America—constructed simultaneously beginning from the west coast (Sacramento, California) and from the more populated east (starting in Omaha, Nebraska)—was joined at Promontory, Utah, near Promontory Summit, north of the Great Salt Lake.
		A place called Promontory Point, Utah is on Promontory Point, a cape jutting out into the Great Salt Lake.
	www.leessummit.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Promontory (241 words)

	CHINESE-AMERICAN CONTRIBUTION TO TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD
		Chinese labor was suggested, as they had already helped build the California Central Railroad, the railroad from Sacramento to Marysville and the San Jose Railway.
		The first Chinese were hired in 1865 [sic] at approximately $28 per month to do the very dangerous work of blasting and laying ties over the treacherous terrain of the high Sierras.
		By the summer of 1868, 4,000 workers, two thirds of which were Chinese, had built the transcontinental railroad over the Sierras and into the interior plains.
	cprr.org /Museum/Chinese.html (8382 words)

	1869 Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		August 9 - Ferdinand Lassalle founds the SAP, the first* socialist workers party in Germany.
		* November 4 - The first issue of scientific journal ''Nature (journal)Nature'' is published.
		* December 10 - First American chapter of Kappa Sigma founded at the University of Virginia.
	www.echostatic.com /1869.html (766 words)

	America on the Move \| The first transcontinental railroad is completed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This famous photo was taken moments after the completion of North America’s first transcontinental rail line.
		In six years, more than 20,000 workers—including many Chinese men, who were left out of this picture, Irish, and others—had laid down some 1,700 miles of track in the largest American civil-works project to that time.
		The first transcontinental railroad link was almost instantly celebrated around the nation because a telegraph wire was connected to the last rail spiked.
	b.cfmx.si.edu /onthemove/collection/object_370.html (202 words)

	Increase Omaha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		See live article First Transcontinental Railroad (North America) The First Transcontinental Railroad in North America was finished in 1869.
		For accuracy it should be noted that this was not the first railroad to connect the Atlantic with the Pacific; that honor goes to the...
		Turn of the century In 1898, the Trans-Mississippi Exposition opened in Omaha, Nebraska, and the Post Office was ready with another issue of commemorative stamps on Western themes, the suggestion having been made the previous year by Edward Rosewater, publisher of the Omaha Daily Bee.
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	The Great Railroad Race - Transcontinental Railroad Interactive Railroad Project
		The Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroads have joined together in Utah to form the first Transcontinental Railroad across North America.
		Your two crews should now join together and present your Railroad Posters to each other.
		Your team should now make a large poster of the similarities and differences between the two railroad companies.
	cprr.org /Game/Interactive_Railroad_Project/up34.htm (94 words)

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