America's first transcontinental railroad (known originally as the "Pacific Railroad" and later as the "Overland Route") was a 1,911-mile (3,075 km) continuous...
144 KB (18,839 words) - 19:54, 28 June 2024
A transcontinental railroad or transcontinental railway is contiguous railroad trackage, that crosses a continental land mass and has terminals at different...
46 KB (5,531 words) - 06:15, 24 June 2024
the first transcontinental railroad project, later known as the Overland Route. Over the next century, UP absorbed the Missouri Pacific Railroad, the...
87 KB (8,074 words) - 19:56, 12 July 2024
The first transcontinental telegraph (completed October 24, 1861) was a line that connected the existing telegraph network in the eastern United States...
9 KB (973 words) - 15:47, 31 January 2024
of the "First transcontinental railroad" in North America. Incorporated in 1861, CPRR ceased independent operations in 1875 when the railroad was leased...
49 KB (5,596 words) - 20:00, 8 July 2024
portion 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...
7 KB (741 words) - 20:13, 9 April 2024
Pacific Railroad Acts of 1862 were a series of acts of Congress that promoted the construction of a "transcontinental railroad" (the Pacific Railroad) in...
15 KB (1,689 words) - 12:55, 2 May 2024
the first transcontinental railroad was built, to join California with the rest of the national network, at a connection in Iowa. Railroads expanded throughout...
66 KB (7,812 words) - 20:35, 11 July 2024
Francisco Bay, the westernmost portion of the First transcontinental railroad. After the completion of the railroad from Sacramento to Alameda Terminal on September...
31 KB (3,273 words) - 05:19, 5 May 2024
Theodore Judah (category First transcontinental railroad)
establishment, and design of the First transcontinental railroad. He found investors for what became the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR). As chief engineer,...
22 KB (2,551 words) - 22:23, 22 February 2024
lines were joined in Utah on May 10, 1869, hence creating the first transcontinental railroad in North America. Interstate 80, built in the 1950s, paralleled...
62 KB (7,500 words) - 00:26, 25 March 2024
Niles Canyon Railway (category Heritage railroads in California)
Canyon Railway (NCRy) is a heritage railway running on the first transcontinental railroad alignment (1866, 1869) through Niles Canyon, between Sunol...
36 KB (3,306 words) - 18:31, 16 June 2024
growth. Railroads not only increased the speed of transport, they also dramatically lowered its cost. For example, the first transcontinental railroad resulted...
103 KB (12,718 words) - 20:36, 2 July 2024
Alameda Terminal (category Former Southern Pacific Railroad stations in California)
Francisco and Alameda Railroad. In 1869, it served as the original west coast terminus of the U.S. First transcontinental railroad,: 7 until the opening...
15 KB (1,549 words) - 04:46, 5 July 2024
Golden spike (category First transcontinental railroad)
the first transcontinental railroad across the United States connecting the Central Pacific Railroad from Sacramento and the Union Pacific Railroad from...
34 KB (4,024 words) - 07:22, 15 July 2024
Union Pacific Big Boy (category Union Pacific Railroad locomotives)
rebuilt to operating condition for the 150th anniversary of the first transcontinental railroad. It thus regained the title as the largest and most powerful...
41 KB (3,206 words) - 11:54, 13 July 2024
I-80 follows the historical routes of the California Trail, first transcontinental railroad and Feather River Route throughout portions of Nevada. Throughout...
32 KB (1,625 words) - 20:48, 28 June 2024
Charles Crocker (category 19th-century American railroad executives)
westernmost portion of the first transcontinental railroad, and took control with partners of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Crocker was born in Troy, New...
19 KB (1,780 words) - 00:14, 3 July 2024
American Western television series about the construction of the first transcontinental railroad across the United States, which broadcast in the United States...
80 KB (6,305 words) - 01:31, 13 July 2024
Lathrop, California (category First transcontinental railroad)
Lathrop was developed around railroad interests. The town was founded around 1868 when the first transcontinental railroad was extended to the area after...
26 KB (2,240 words) - 14:37, 21 May 2024
separate destinations. Use of the trail declined after the first transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869, making the trip west substantially faster...
144 KB (19,252 words) - 23:30, 14 June 2024
miles (21.7 km) section of the original 1869 grade of the first transcontinental railroad. Its raised grade (trackway), 11 trestles, and 21 culverts...
4 KB (414 words) - 05:57, 5 August 2023
22, 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...
15 KB (1,835 words) - 16:43, 7 December 2023
of Nevada and California, the first transcontinental airmail route, and the route of the first transcontinental railroad, except for the vicinity of the...
36 KB (3,376 words) - 00:48, 25 June 2024
Leviathan (locomotive) (category First transcontinental railroad)
locomotive owned by the Central Pacific Railroad. It was notable for helping construct the First transcontinental railroad before hauling Leland Stanford's special...
7 KB (657 words) - 04:18, 18 June 2024
Golden Spike National Historical Park (category First transcontinental railroad)
the completion of the first Transcontinental Railroad where the Central Pacific Railroad and the first Union Pacific Railroad met on May 10, 1869. The...
19 KB (1,981 words) - 21:36, 30 June 2024
Railroad Surveys (1853–1855) were a series of explorations of the American West designed to find and document possible routes for a transcontinental railroad...
32 KB (3,711 words) - 05:38, 16 July 2024
Crédit Mobilier scandal (redirect from Credit Mobilier railroad scandal)
Pacific Railroad and the Crédit Mobilier of America construction company in the building of the eastern portion of the first transcontinental railroad from...
21 KB (2,527 words) - 14:27, 11 July 2024
Promontory, Utah (category First transcontinental railroad)
is notable as the location of Promontory Summit, where the First transcontinental railroad from Sacramento to Omaha in the United States was officially...
22 KB (2,763 words) - 18:30, 5 May 2024
Hell on Wheels (category Union Pacific Railroad)
followed the army of Union Pacific Railroad workers westward as they constructed the first transcontinental railroad in 1860s North America. The huge numbers...
7 KB (633 words) - 11:20, 14 December 2023