The Transcontinental railroad
The First transcontinental railroad was built from Sacramento, California to Omaha, Nebraska. It was over 2000 miles long and took 6 years to build it was comprised of 2 railroads, The Union Pacific and the central pacific railroad.
The transcontinental railroad was Abraham Lincoln's dream. The dream was taken upon by 4 shopkeepers in Sacramento. And so the first shovel of earth for the first transcontinental railroad was shoveled in Jan 8th 1863. The start of a monumental task,of building a railroad from sea to shining sea. They had to tunnel through the Sierra Nevada through a path designed by and engineer call Theodore Judah. They were promised land and money for building tracks. But they couldn't get a cent before they had laid 40 miles of track and they didn't even have the supplies for 1 mile. Every single thing had to come by sea, and with the civil war on the rage and a journey of 4 months, few ships ever made it. The construction head was Charles Crocker, he hired a man named James Harvey Strobridge. He was the toughest construction boss on the west, he loft and eye in a powder blast and disciplines his crew with a pick handle. Though the shopkeepers were started the men had a dream, a dream to find gold. Then one day all the men left in search of their dream. The shopkeepers were in ruin.…show more content… Successfully the Chinese people were so much better than the American people, they built faster and, for less pay. 2 years after it started the men broke through the 40 mile barrie and unlocked millions of dollars in government
