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Golden Spike National Historical Park (1,982 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

east-southeast of the site. It commemorates the completion of the first Transcontinental Railroad where the Central Pacific Railroad and the first Union Pacific

National Transcontinental Railway (1,711 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The National Transcontinental Railway (NTR) was a historic railway between Winnipeg and Moncton in Canada. Much of the line is now operated by the Canadian

Big Four (Central Pacific Railroad) (741 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

through the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains of the First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States, built from the mid-continent at the Missouri

Empire Express (230 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad is a book written by David Haward Bain, published in 2000. It follows the initial conception

Oakes Ames (960 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

influence in the building of the Union Pacific portion of the transcontinental railroad. He is also noted for the subsequent scandal that alleged the

Chinatown, Salt Lake City (293 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

a Chinese population that worked in the mining camps and the transcontinental railroad. The first Chinese peoples came in the 1860s and had formed a

Navajo Springs, Arizona (383 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

horses and themselves. The Beale Wagon Road, a precursor of the transcontinental railroad built through the area in 1882 as well as the "mother road", U

Donner Lake (1,001 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Schallenberger Ridge and closely follow the route of the original transcontinental railroad. The historic route of the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile

Brownville Junction, Maine (206 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Railway built the International Railway of Maine as part of its transcontinental railroad, connecting Montreal, Quebec, with Saint John, New Brunswick.

Shelley Fisher Fishkin (888 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the transcontinental railroad, Fishkin and Chang published the co-edited volume The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad. From

Pioneer Day (1,334 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

generally considered to have ended with the 1869 arrival of the transcontinental railroad. Notable non-LDS American pioneers from this period include Episcopal

Gunnison, Utah (864 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Gunnison, a United States Army officer who surveyed for the transcontinental railroad in 1853. In the summer of 2007, over 24,000 US gallons (91,000 L)

Dale Creek Crossing (552 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Wyoming Territory, presented engineers of the United States' first transcontinental railroad one of their most difficult challenges. Dale Creek Bridge, the

Charles Marsh (railroad builder) (1,835 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

1876) was an influential figure in the building of the first transcontinental railroad, as well as in building water systems for mining in the Sierra

Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company (891 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

was formed primarily to create a link between Denver and the transcontinental railroad at Cheyenne, an achievement that was widely credited at the time

Ogallala, Nebraska (1,696 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the city was a stop on the Pony Express and later along the transcontinental railroad. The Ogallala Formation that carries the Ogallala Aquifer was

Robert S. Williamson (756 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

American soldier and engineer, noted for conducting surveys for the transcontinental railroad in California and Oregon. Inducted into the Army Corps of Engineers

Hillsdale, Wyoming (286 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

June 11, 1867, while leading a party surveying a route of the Transcontinental Railroad. Hillsdale was platted as a townsite in April 2013. Kenny Sailors

Amiel Weeks Whipple (1,115 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

United States and Mexico boundary and led the survey of a possible transcontinental railroad route along the thirty-fifth parallel from Arkansas to Los Angeles

Charles Melville Hays (2,314 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Trunk Pacific Railway (GTP), a plan he had to create a second transcontinental railroad within the borders of Canada. He is also blamed for the insolvency

American Experience season 15 (145 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

PBS. Retrieved December 14, 2012. "American Experience | The Transcontinental Railroad". PBS. Retrieved December 14, 2012. "American Experience | Partners

History of the Union Pacific Railroad (7,500 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

were joined in Utah on May 10, 1869, hence creating the first transcontinental railroad in North America. Interstate 80, built in the 1950s, paralleled

Colorado Central Railroad (1,107 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Golden–Denver line to form a crucial link connecting Colorado with the transcontinental railroad and the national rail network. The history of the railroad throughout

Cathy's Valentine (208 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

premiered after This Is America, Charlie Brown: The Building of the Transcontinental Railroad. As Valentine's Day approaches, Cathy, ever the romantic, becomes

Banta, California (772 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Railroad. [citation needed] Banta was located on the route of the transcontinental railroad from Sacramento to the San Francisco Bay Area by way of the Altamont

California Historical Landmarks in Placer County (106 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Transcontinental Railroad - Auburn

Tobin Bridges (236 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(compensated) grade, the least steep of any mountain grade on a transcontinental railroad. The Tobin Bridges are an extended part of Plumas County's "7

Cooke's Spring Station (316 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

subsequent stage lines until made obsolete by the arrival of the transcontinental railroad in New Mexico. Cooke's Spring was located at the eastern mouth

Carnarvon Terms (707 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

between British Columbia and Canada over the construction of the transcontinental railroad and the Vancouver Island railroad and train bridge. Vancouver

Gilbert McMicken (443 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Winnipeg as a town and helped keep it on the route chosen for the transcontinental railroad. McMicken was appointed to the Council of Keewatin serving as

William McDonell Dawson (197 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

he travelled to London in an attempt to secure financing for a transcontinental railroad. He died at Montreal in 1890. His brother Simon James served in

Feramorz Little (718 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Salt Lake City. Little was also a major subcontractor on the transcontinental railroad. He afterwards served on boards for various railroad lines running

California Historical Landmarks in Sacramento County (176 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

2012-10-07. 780.0 First Transcontinental Railroad ground breaking, californiahistoricallandmarks.com 780.8 First Transcontinental Railroad, californiahistoricallandmarks

List of tunnels documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in California (88 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Central Pacific Railroad, Clipper Gap Tunnel Central Pacific Transcontinental Railroad, Tunnel 'O' Abandoned 1873 1984 1997 Union Pacific Railroad Clipper

Williams Loop (215 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

percent (compensated) grade, the least steep of any grade on a transcontinental railroad.[citation needed] Built in 1914 by the Western Pacific Railroad

Ely, Nevada (3,103 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

than the other towns along US 50. The railroads connecting the transcontinental railroad to the mines in Austin, Nevada and Eureka, Nevada have long been

Winners of the West (1940 serial) (455 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

wife Claire. Dick Foran as Jeff Ramsay, employee of the Hartford Transcontinental Railroad Anne Nagel as Claire Hartford, daughter of John Hartford Tom Fadden

Richard Urquhart Goode (2,706 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

topographer with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Northern Transcontinental Railroad Survey, and the Panama Canal Company. Goode was in charge of the

Whipple Expedition (271 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Davis to send out surveying expeditions to explore potential transcontinental railroad routes across the United States. Reports from these expeditions

Daniel Desmond (307 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

state via clipper ship via Cape Horn, Chile, as there was no transcontinental railroad yet. Los Angeles had a population of less than 4,500 and Desmond

Great Falls station (189 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

known as The Milwaukee Road). The Milwaukee Road was the last transcontinental railroad that entered Montana in 1907–1908 as a part of its "Pacific Extension"

Rail transport in Central America (1,744 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The most famous one is the Panama Canal Railway, the oldest transcontinental railroad in the world, connecting Panama City with Colón since 1855. Other

Hell on Wheels season 1 (2,394 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

to the settlement that accompanied the construction of First Transcontinental Railroad, referred to as "Hell on Wheels" by the Union Pacific company

Maurice W. Graham (315 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

from the 100th anniversary of the completion of the first US transcontinental railroad. He was one of the founding members of the National Hobo Foundation

Utah and Northern Railway (960 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(914 mm) narrow gauge spur off the Union Pacific portion of the transcontinental railroad. The labor for this railroad was largely volunteer Mormon labor

History of Chinese Americans in Colorado (1,190 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Railway, and Union Pacific Railroad companies as they completed the transcontinental railroad. According to a letter written by Joseph Wolff of Boulder, Colorado

McCord-Brady Company (310 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

railroad town created in 1867 by the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, making it an important transportation center from its inception

Presidency of Franklin Pierce (8,100 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

territory, and commercial and political interests called for a transcontinental railroad through the region, pressure mounted for the organization of the

Checkerboarding (land) (1,115 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

before railroad companies were granted the land to construct the transcontinental railroad. Tension grew between the Navajo tribe and the settlers of the

Logan Heights, San Diego (370 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

legislation to provide federal land grants and subsidies for a transcontinental railroad ending in San Diego. A street laid in 1881 was named Logan Heights

David Haward Bain (1,857 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

work of narrative history, Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad; a historical travel memoir, The Old Iron Road: An Epic of Roads

Credit Foncier of America (665 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

McCague, J. (1964) Moguls and Iron Men: The Story of the First Transcontinental Railroad. Harper and Row. p 135. Holland, P.G. (nd) "George Francis Train

Cochetopa Pass (507 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

disaster. In 1848, St. Louis businessmen, in an effort to have the transcontinental railroad pass through their city, financed an expedition to find a route

Brickyard Cove, Richmond, California (294 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

connecting to San Francisco. Passengers ending their journeys on the transcontinental railroad, which terminated in Richmond at Ferry Point, could take a car

Montague (surname) (577 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

pioneer, responsible for building the western half of the First Transcontinental Railroad Sarah Montague (born 1966), British radio journalist and Today

My Name Is America (615 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Walter Dean Myers (June 1999) The Journal of Sean Sullivan: A Transcontinental Railroad Worker, Nebraska and Points West, 1867 by William Durbin (September

Fort Kearny (2,794 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Union Pacific. In 1871, two years after the completion of the transcontinental railroad, the fort was discontinued as a military post. Its buildings were

Great Northern (277 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(disambiguation). Great Northern Railway (U.S.), a defunct American transcontinental railroad and major predecessor of the BNSF Railway. Great Northern Railway

Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad (3,923 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

residents. The T&T also formed part of a potential north-south transcontinental railroad route, connected together by four different US railway companies

Bryan, Wyoming (256 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

land in Green River City, in anticipation of the arrival of the transcontinental railroad, in 1868. Unwilling to negotiate with the squatters, the railroad

List of Hell on Wheels episodes (2,162 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the lawless town that moved with the construction of the first transcontinental railroad. However, things got complicated when Cheyenne and Sioux tribes

Towards the Last Spike (882 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

narrative poem in blank verse about the construction of the first transcontinental railroad line in Canada, that of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), from

Philip Henson (2,291 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Congressman from Illinois Elihu Benjamin Washburne, Union General and Transcontinental Railroad executive Grenville Mellen Dodge, New York political boss William

The Winans (425 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

This Is America, Charlie Brown's segment "The Building of the Transcontinental Railroad" in 1989. Their style was noted for its crossover efforts and

William B. Ogden (1,723 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

with many others for congressional approval and funding of the transcontinental railroad. After the 1862 Pacific Railroad Act, Ogden was named as the first

Eightmile, Nevada (271 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the country before the completion of the construction of the transcontinental railroad in 1869. A sheep ranch was established in the 1900s. The Lincoln

Ferry Point, California (373 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

using Ferry Point in 1975, making it the longest-lived of the transcontinental railroad wharves on the bay. The East Bay Regional Park District acquired

Gordon H. Chang (576 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Gold Mountain: The Epic Stories of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad. 1991 Bernath Book Prize. 1999 Guggenheim Fellowship Award. Committee

Ed Chau (1,352 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

the contributions made by Chinese Americans in establishing the Transcontinental Railroad; protect students by removing from classrooms teachers charged

1821 in rail transport (177 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

(2000). Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad. Touchstone. pp. 47–48. ISBN 0-7432-0317-8. A footnote in the

100th meridian west (446 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

intersects with the routes of the Oregon Trail, Pony Express, transcontinental railroad, and the Lincoln Highway. The song "At the Hundredth Meridian"

California Historical Landmarks in San Joaquin County (123 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Retrieved 2019-04-03. "Site of Completion of Pacific Railroad - First Transcontinental Railroad". HMdb.org. Retrieved 6 December 2019. Wikimedia Commons has media

To America (73 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

was. It also covers topics, such as Western expansion and The Transcontinental Railroad. It was written only months before he died in October 2002. v

Matlin, Utah (301 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

2020). "Utah wildfire destroyed nearly 150-year-old pieces of transcontinental railroad history". ksl.com. Deseret Digital Media. Retrieved June 7, 2020

Roseville, California (3,478 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

were constructed northeastward from Sacramento as part of the transcontinental railroad. The point where the tracks met the California Central Railroad

Promontory Point (150 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Promontory Point, a mountain gap in northern Utah where the U.S. Transcontinental Railroad connected Promontory (disambiguation) Point (disambiguation) This

Hezekiah Bissell (544 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

(2000). Nothing Like It In The World, The Men Who Built The Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869. Simon&Schuster. ISBN 0-684-84609-8. Williams, John

Last spike (169 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Zealand, driven in 1908 Golden spike, the final spike of the first transcontinental railroad across the United States, driven in 1869 This disambiguation page

Linda Hall Library (816 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

website Libraries.org Linda Hall entry page Linda Hall Library's Transcontinental Railroad educational site with free, full-text access to 19th century American

Texas rice production (556 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in Texas, primarily due to the full operation of the southern transcontinental railroad and its acquisition two years later by the Southern Pacific Railroad

Tehachapi Railroad Depot (324 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Tehachapi Summit and came through Tehachapi was the second transcontinental railroad. The museum has a collection of old railroad tools and signals

Columbus, Nebraska (5,897 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

townsite was selected for its location on the proposed route of the transcontinental railroad.: 5 Just west of the Columbus site, the Elk Horn and Loup Fork

Horton Grand Hotel (271 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of a building boom following the opening of the city's first transcontinental railroad connection in 1885. It is in the Italianate Victorian architecture

History of Denver (12,127 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

next step for growing their city, ensuring that the route of the transcontinental railroad would pass through Denver. With investment once again flowing

River Warren Falls (831 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

made a detailed survey of the valley in his search for possible transcontinental railroad routes. Posthumously, in appreciation of this work, the glacial

History of Denver (12,127 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

next step for growing their city, ensuring that the route of the transcontinental railroad would pass through Denver. With investment once again flowing

Antoine Leroux (441 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

expeditions that year to help survey proposed routes for the proposed Transcontinental Railroad. In summer, he accompanied Amiel Weeks Whipple on an expedition

Lyons Station Stagecoach Stop (818 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

railway also linked Southern California to the eastern U.S. via the transcontinental railroad in the north. The refinery at Lyons Station was unsuccessful and

California Historical Landmarks in Alameda County (114 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Alameda Terminal - First Transcontinental Railroad

National Register of Historic Places listings in Alameda County, California (808 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Niles Canyon Transcontinental Railroad Historic District

Port of Bayóvar (126 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Northern Mining Railway. Railway Technology, 15 Sep 2009 The First Transcontinental Railroad in South America: Still Just a Pipe Dream? Knowledge@Wharton,

Utah Territory (1,136 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum Utah's Role in the Transcontinental Railroad, Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum Utah State

Judah (surname) (130 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Judah (1826–1863), American engineer who dreamed of the first transcontinental railroad Tim Judah (born 1962), British historian and journalist Yoel Judah (born

Abram Hatch (556 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

trips between the Missouri River and Utah Territory before the transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869. From 1864 to 1867, Hatch was a missionary

X̱wáýx̱way (693 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

British expansion from the east following the opening of the transcontinental railroad in 1886, Vancouver started to boom in population. What is now

Humboldt River (2,745 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

used as part of the route of the Central Pacific segment of the Transcontinental Railroad. In the 20th century, the valley of the river became the route

Canadian Pacific Railway Coast Service (619 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Ferry service. In the 20th century, the company evolved into a transcontinental railroad which operated two transoceanic services which connected Canada

California Historical Landmarks in Nevada County (112 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

First Transcontinental Railroad-Truckee

Point of Rocks, Wyoming (424 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

burning. In 1868, the station was converted to a stop along the transcontinental railroad and the Overland Trail. When mining declined in the area the station

Henry Starnes (536 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in exchange, Cartier had promised Allan the contract for the transcontinental railroad. The exposure of this arrangement led to the Pacific Scandal and

Tony Gayton (220 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and its people that accompanied the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, referred to as "Hell on Wheels." Holden, Stephen (26 April 2002)

Los Angeles & San Pedro Railroad (1,760 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

around present-day Wilmington both as a possible terminus for a transcontinental railroad, and as a possible seaport. Numerous plans for a railroad from

Wine cave (1,881 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

grades over the Sierra Nevada Mountains for the Union Pacific Transcontinental Railroad. He hired them to dig a network of caves through the soft Sonoma

Wenham Lake (1,503 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Union Army and a central figure in the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869. The railroad spur became the Beverly-Newburyport commuter

William Carr Lane (522 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

authority over. He sought to use the land as a route for the transcontinental railroad, but President Franklin Pierce did not approve of the seizure

Cozzens House Hotel (674 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

J.H. (1996) A Great and Shining Road: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroad. University of Nebraska Press. p 196. Federal Writers Project

Strata-Dome (760 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Spike Centennial Limited to mark the centennial of the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S. Both cars later ran on the final Capitol Limited run

Canadian Pacific Railway Lake and River Service (348 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Ferry service. In the 20th century, the company evolved into a transcontinental railroad which operated two transoceanic services which connected Canada

Newcastle, California (802 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

224. Newcastle was founded in the 19th century. According to Transcontinental Railroad Landmarks the "Regular freight and passenger trains began operating

Promontory (disambiguation) (149 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

also refer to: Promontory Summit, where the United States first transcontinental railroad was completed in Box Elder County, Utah Promontory, Utah, an unincorporated

Cambie (104 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Vancouver, British Columbia, designated the terminus of Canada's transcontinental railroad Things named for Henry John Cambie Cambie Street, Vancouver Cambie