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awsome feild trip! :)

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the firt trail run on august 17 the day before my birth day

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Go to explore and learn http://www.csrmf.org/

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that's right toby

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It's a extra tour and some info.

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The California State Railroad Museum - Tour & Information

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Last weekend the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento, California was host to a 150 year anniversary celebration of the Union Pacific Railroad. Modesto News .org headed up to Sacramento for a special tour of the museum with Museum Curator, Paul Hammond.

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The Big Four

Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins, better known to history as the "Big Four," were instrumental in building the Central Pacific Railroad and developing California's railroad system in the years between 1861 and 1900. Of modest origins, all were born or had lived in upstate New York prior to being drawn West by the Gold Rush. Huntington and Hopkins were partners in a hardware company; Stanford operated a grocery business with his brothers; and Crocker was a dry goods merchant. Prosperous by 1860, they all supported the presidential candidacy of Abraham Lincoln and the new Republican Party when called together by Theodore Judah to hear his idea for a railroad to the East. The start of the Civil War prompted their active involvement, and they invested every energy in building the western part of the first transcontinental railroad. Eventually the Big Four controlled a far-flung network of railroad enterprises which gave them enormous wealth and political power. Admired and detested as the West's first "Railroad Kings," they left a legacy of railroad development which still influences transportation and politics in California

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Although the South started early to build railways, it concentrated on short lines linking cotton regions to oceanic or river ports, and the absence of an interconnected network was a major handicap during the Civil War. The North and Midwest constructed networks that linked every city by 1860. In the heavily settled Midwestern Corn Belt, over 80 percent of farms were within 5 miles (8 km) of a railway, facilitating the shipment of grain, hogs and cattle to national and international markets. A large number of short lines were built, but thanks to a fast developing financial system based on Wall Street and oriented to railway bonds, the majority were consolidated into 20 trunk lines by 1890. State and local governments often subsidized lines, but rarely owned them.

The system was largely built by 1910, but then trucks arrived to eat away the freight traffic, and automobiles (and later airplanes) to devour the passenger traffic. The use of diesel electric locomotives (after 1940) made for much more efficient operations that needed fewer workers on the road and in repair shops. yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

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Here is a picture of a train

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pictures of trains in sacramento - Google Search

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From the very earliest days, the railroad has been an essential element of motion pictures and television. ... The California State Railroad Museum, its Foundation, and its related organizations, such as the Sacramento Southern Railroad and the Sierra Railroad Company, will help make the railroad an integral part of your ...

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cool video ......well sort of?

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California State Railroad Museum Sacramento

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California State Railroad Museum, March 3, 2000

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Take a walking tour of the California Statet Railroad Museum on March 3, 2000.

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African Americans, Irish, Italians, Chinese, Japanese, East Indians, Mexicans and representatives of dozens of other ethnic groups labored on track building, shoveled snow, and hauled cinders. Women worked as telegraphers, dispatchers, and clerks starting in the 19th century, but few other railroad jobs were open to women. Women were hired during the First and Second World Wars to replace men called away to the armed forces, but peace brought the soldiers back to their old jobs, pushing many but not all women out of the industrial workforce

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awsome

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wow

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Early American Railroads [ushistory.org]

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Beginning with the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869, trains brought settlers to California and shipped many of the products of the Golden State to markets throughout North America. The state's rapid development into the sixth largest economy in the world was made possible, to a great extent, by the railroad. It all began with four Sacramento storekeepers and a visionary, but persuasive, civil engineer.

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This will be my third time going to the train museum and state capital. There are like a hundred trains and cars. If you can think about any thing that has to do with a train it will most likely be there. Box cars, Mail cars, fruit cars, to even Sleep cars. These car are super old. They all have been preserved with a special spray.

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The Chinese helped a lot to build a railroad to Utah.

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pictures of a train in the museaum .

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pictures of the train museum in sacramento - Google Search

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California State Railroad Museum, Sacramento Picture: Sacramento California Train Museum - Check out TripAdvisor members' 6106 candid photos and videos of California State Railroad Museum.

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http://www.sactownmag.com/Calendar/index.php/name/California-State-Railroad-Museum-A-City-Divided-Sacramento-and-the-Pullman-Strike-of-1894/event/9874/

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it transformed america.onrignaly built by corneilis vander bait.it begin in 1903.it took 3 hunderd cubic yards of rock to move.200 buildings demolished.It took 2 billion dollars to make and 300 ton sof steel.the arcons and oak leaves mean repersent vandbilt family coat of arms

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thx Maya u r great it had a lot of info

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Railroad is one of the firt ways of trasportation. it took awhile to go to somewhere on a wagon. so when railroads came it made everything easier

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The earliest American railroads in this country date back to the New Jersey Railroad Company of 1815 chartered by Colonel John Stevens

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The building is about 2 1/2 acres (100,000 square feet . They hold on the top floor, toy trains. On this website, listen to the sound track. I got some info from it. There are many trains that we will see.... and hopefully we will find out stuff about them.

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The California high-speed rail project has broken ground and its path will bring it through Sacramento. That's no surprise considering much of the history of rail in the U.S. begins in the city.

"You can talk about the whole development of policy and politics and transportation, just by talking about the transcontinental railroad and California," said Paul Hammond, Director of the California State Railroad Museum in Old Town Sacramento.

The three-floor museum is 2.5 acres under one roof covering 100,000 square feet. It is filled with at least 20 different rail cars and locomotives, along with exhibits, including toy trains. It opened in 1981. Tracks had to be placed inside the museum in order to roll the trains in and to move them outside the building when necessary.

Hammond said one of the primary missions of the museum is to support the educational system by offering field trips and group visits.

"Fourth graders are our main target because they are learning about California history and this is a great place to explain how the West was won by modes of transportation," said Hammond.

The first locomotive of the transcontinental railroad is one of many highlights in the museum.

"The locomotive arrived in a series of boxes right here on the old Sacramento wharf," said Hammond. "It was put together by plumbers and machinists and put right into service hauling construction trains."

The transcontinental railroad broke ground in Old Sacramento in 1863 and was finished six years later.

"It's really hard to separate the story of Sacramento from the story of the railroad in the history of the development of the American West," said Hammond. "The first railroad west of the Rocky Mountains was built to run, in the mid-1850s, from Old Sacramento to Folsom, just to get gold miners and their goods a little bit closer to the gold fields."

Hammond said all roads - and railways - lead to Sacramento.

"If you look at a map today of Northern California and you're looking at the transportation infrastructure that we have in this state, everything crisscrosses in Sacramento," Hammond explained. "When you look back in history, Sacramento is the city it is today because the railroad provided such a stable employment base. This became a city of homes, not a city of tenements. And government didn't really become big until after World War II."

Even today, high-speed rail plans are generating changes in Sacramento.

"There's activity going on to put investment into the systems that would connect to the high-speed rail network," said Hammond. "The Capitol Corridor is expected to get some upgrades so it becomes a better feeder system to feed into the high-speed rail system."

He said the past, present and future of rail transportation comes together in Sacramento.

"There's no place in California where railroads are more important and really, no place in the Western United States, where you can illustrate it better, in my view, than understanding Sacramento's role in helping to develop a continental United States."

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history and future of rail rolls through sacramento

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History and Future Of Rail Rolls Through Sacramento

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The California high-speed rail project has broken ground and its path will bring it through Sacramento. That's no surprise considering much of the history of rail in the U.S. begins in the city.

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This will be my third time to the train museum and state capital building. There is almost any type of train car you can think of. Box cars, fruit cars, sleep cars, to even mail cars. If you can think about any train engines you see in movies or books that are super old it will most likely be there.

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go to time 4:32 to begin the tour

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California State Railroad Museum Sacramento

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California Railway Museum Rio Vista Junction

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Premier Railroad Museum - Old Sacramento, California

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This extensive railroad museum features 21 exquisitely restored locomotives and railroad cars, some dating back to 1862. If you are a train lover, admirer, or just casually inquisitive about trains, this premier museum is for you. Experience lavishly restored train engines and rail cars at the California State Railroad Museum, widely regarded as North America's most popular railroad museum.

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there was a time when every town pretty much had a station

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It must have been tough to lay rails and pounding in railroad spikes all day.

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In 1840, the railroad only had 2,808 miles of track. By 1995, there was 170,000+ miles.

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here is a video on the sacromento train station.

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California State Railroad Museum Sacramento

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Premier Railroad Museum - Old Sacramento, California

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This extensive railroad museum features 21 exquisitely restored locomotives and railroad cars, some dating back to 1862. If you are a train lover, admirer, or just casually inquisitive about trains, this premier museum is for you. Experience lavishly restored train engines and rail cars at the California State Railroad Museum, widely regarded as North America's most popular railroad museum.

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Having proven successful in the East, the first railroads built in California also provided transportation from inland communities to the rivers and ocean harbors to meet the needs of the growing population of California.
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On August 4, 1852 the Sacramento Valley Railroad was incorporated, Charles Lincoln Wilson was selected President. The SVRR hired Theodore D. Judah to survey a line eastward from Sacramento to Folsom and Marysville.

Grading began in Sacramento in February 1855. The first English iron rails were laid on August 9. Track was completed between the foot of R Street and 17th Street on August 16. The first common carrier railroad in California, the SVRR made its first trial run on August 17,the day before my birth day , 1855 with a three car train pulled by the locomotive Sacramento.

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The railroad musuem opened to the puplic in 1976, the California state Railroad Museum complex is one of Sacremento's largest and most popular visitor destinations. Over 500,000 people vist the Railroad Museum annually, with guests traveling throughout the world to experience this world- renowed facility.The California State Railroad Museum complex consists of six orginal, reconstructed, and new buildings at a cost of $30 million. The primary exhibit building, the Railroad Museum, totals 100,000 square feet. Completed at the cost of $16.1 million, it opened in May 1981. With over 225,000 square feet of total exhibit space, the buildings within the California State Railroad Museum complex use stimulating exhibits,

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The railroad has many interesting artifacts inside and out. While you are over there exploring you will get to experience some breathtaking trains, engines, displays, and who knows what else! Let me tell you a few awesome features that you will see when your viewing the California state railroad museum. You may get to see the Central Pacific loco motive number 1. That train was the first loco motive of the transcontinental railroad. Its the first loco motive railroad to be programmed in Sacramento. To explain it in easier words, you would see the first train that was delivered so the train workers could start construction. If you did see it you would see that it is not a huge loco motive and that it was used system wide. You will see that loco motive in the first room of the museum. Also, in the same room you will view a impressive set up. In that building, the size is 100,000 square feet. In another place in the museum you will experience a replica of the Huntington and Hawkins hardware store. It was there first business. Right next door you will see Stanford brothers Hall . Stanford had an interest in that business as well. Inside another building ( the size of the building is 2 acres) you will pass by railroad workers from all walks of life. You should have a moment to read about them and their past. Maybe you will even have time to really think about how many people it took to build a railroad back in those days. Later, You will seek the inside of an actual train! You might get to see all the different rooms and

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here is a wed-site on trains in Sacramento .

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http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/transcontinental-railroad/videos/american-railroad

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Railroads played a large role in the development of the United States from the industrial revolution in the North-east 1810–50 to the settlement of the West 1850–1890. The American railroad mania began with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1828 and flourished until the Panic of 1873 bankrupted many companies and temporarily ended growth

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The development ofRAILROADS was one of the most important phenomena of the Industrial Revolution. With their formation, construction and operation, they brought profound social, economic and political change to a country only 50 years old. Over the next 50 years, America would come to see magnificent bridges and other structures on which trains would run, awesome depots, ruthless rail magnates and the majesty of rail locomotives crossing the country.

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The Califonia railroad is still open from 10am to 5pm.

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A short tour of the California railroad museum

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Take a tour and learn all about California's famous and historical railway system. TurnHere, Inc., produces Internet video for a variety of businesses across the globe including media, real estate, small businesses, travel and financial services. Our 2,000 filmmakers shoot and produce Internet videos in more than 50 countries that emotionally engage viewers with compelling, authentic stories.

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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. Originally thought to be too small to complete such a momentous task, Charles Crocker of Central Pacific pointed out,

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Old Sacramento, Railroad Museum, & CA State Capitol ~ 2009

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Trip to Northern California part I. Tourist stuff in Sacramento.

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The railroad age is very inportantto california.The establishment of America's transcontinental railroads securely linked California to the rest of the country, and the far-reaching transportation systems that grew out of them during the century that followed contributed to the state’s social, political, and economic development. When California was admitted as a state to the United States in 1850, and for nearly two decades after, it was in many ways isolated, an outpost on the Pacific.

In recent years, passenger rail transport has undergone something of a renaissance with the introduction of services such as Metrolink, Coaster, Caltrain, Amtrak California and others.The very first "inter-oceanic" railroad which affected California was built in 1855 across the Isthmus of Panama, the Panama railway. The Panama Railway reduced the time needed to cross the Isthmus from a week of difficult and dangerous travel to a day of relative comfort. The building of the Panama Railroad, in combination with the increasing use of steamships (instead of sailing ships) meant that travel to and from California via Panama was the primary method used by people who could afford to do so, and was used for valuable cargo, such as the gold being shipped from California to the East Coast.The early Forty-Niners of the California Gold Rush wishing to come to California were faced with limited options. From the East Coast, for example, a sailing voyage around the tip of South America would take five to eight months,[1] and cover some 18,000 nautical miles (33,000 km). An alternative route was to sail to the Atlantic side of the Isthmus of Panama, to take canoes and mules for a week through thejungle, and then on the Pacific side, to wait for a ship sailing for San Francisco.[2] Eventually, most gold-seekers took the overland route across the continental United States, particularly along the California Trail.[3] Each of these routes had its own deadly hazards, from shipwreck to typhoid fever to cholera or Indian attack.

California's symbolic and tangible connection to the rest of the country was fused at Promontory Summit, Utah, as the "last spike" was driven to join the tracks of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads, thereby completing the First Transcontinental Railroad on May 10, 1869 (before that time, only a few local rail lines operated in the State, the first being the Sacramento Valley Railroad).[9] The 1,600 mile (2,575-kilometer) trip from Omaha, Nebraska would now take mere days. The Wild West was quickly transformed from a lawless, agrarian frontier to what would become an urbanized, industrialized economic and political powerhouse. Of perhaps greater significance is the unbridled economic growth that was spurred on by the sheer diversity of opportunities available in the region.
The Golden Spike ceremony held at Promontory Summit, Utah on May 10, 1869. Photograph by Andrew J. Russell.
The four years following the Golden Spike ceremony saw the length of track in the U.S. double to over 70,000 miles (nearly 113,000 kilometers).[10] By around the start of the 20th century, the completion of four subsequent transcontinental routes in the United States and one in Canada would provide not only additional pathways to the Pacific Ocean, but would forge ties to all of the economically important areas between the coasts as well. Virtually the entire country was accessible by rail, making a national economy possible for the first time. And while federal financial assistance (in the form of land grants and guaranteed low-interest loans, a well-established government policy) was vital to the railroads’ expansion across North America, this support accounted for less than eight percent (8%) of the total length of rails laid; private investment was responsible for the vast majority of railroad construction.[11]

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Railroad train video very informational

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In 1893, the US went through a serious depression, prompting widespread wage cuts and layoffs, which provoked a Nation wide strike of tons of miners mining to make a railroad.

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1960's-11970's were hard times for train companies. the first steam locomotive was Stourbridge Lion,

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Trains where a big part of how the North won the civil war. Trains helped because they needed something to transport all the soldiers and weapons.

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http://www.csrmf.org/

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbj5DZ7zhK8

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Link for a 3 minute video. You will learn a lot!

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Contents

1. Dreams of a Transcontinental Railroad

2. Two Competing Companies: The Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroad

3. Danger Ahead: Building the Transcontinental Railroad

4. Driving Toward The Last Spike

5. Impact on The United States

6. Photo Galleries

In 1862, the Pacific Railroad Act chartered the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroad Companies, tasking them with building a transcontinental railroad that would link the United States from east to west. Over the next seven years, the two companies would race toward each other from Sacramento, California on the one side to Omaha, Nebraska on the other, struggling against great risks before they met at Promontory, Utah, on May 10, 1869.

Dreams of a Transcontinental Railroad

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America's first steam locomotive made its debut in 1830, and over the next two decades, railroad tracks linked many cities on the East Coast. By 1850, some 9,000 miles of track had been laid east of the Missouri River. During that same period, the first settlers began to move westward across the United States; this trend increased dramatically after the discovery of gold in California in 1849. The overland journey-across mountains, plains, rivers and deserts-was risky and difficult, and many westward migrants instead chose to travel by sea, taking the six-month route around Cape Horn at the tip of South America, or risking yellow fever and other diseases by crossing the Isthmus of Panama and traveling via ship to San Francisco.

Did you know? Before the building of the Transcontinental Railroad, it cost nearly $1,000 dollars to travel across the country. After the railroad was completed, the price dropped to $150 dollars.

In 1845, the New York entrepreneur Asa Whitney presented a resolution in Congress proposing the federal funding of a railroad that would stretch to the Pacific. Lobbying efforts over the next several years failed due to growing sectionalism in Congress, but the idea remained a potent one. In 1860, a young engineer named Theodore Judah identified the infamous Donner Pass in northern California (where a group of westward emigrants had become trapped in 1846) as an ideal location for constructing a railroad through the formidable Sierra Nevada mountains. By 1861, Judah had enlisted a group of investors in Sacramento to form the Central Pacific Railroad Company. He then headed to Washington, where he was able to convince congressional leaders as well as President Abraham Lincoln, who signed the Pacific Railroad Act into law the following year.

Two Competing Companies: The Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroad

The Pacific Railroad Act stipulated that the Central Pacific Railroad Company would start building in Sacramento and continue east across the Sierra Nevada, while a second company, the Union Pacific Railroad, would build westward from the Missouri River, near the Iowa- Nebraska border. The two lines of track would meet in the middle (the bill did not designate an exact location) and each company would receive 6,400 acres of land (later doubled to 12,800) and $48,000 in government bonds for every mile of track built. From the beginning, then, the building of the transcontinental railroad was set up in terms of a competition between the two companies.

In the West, the Central Pacific would be dominated by the "Big Four"-Charles Crocker, Leland Stanford, Collis Huntington and Mark Hopkins. All were ambitious businessmen with no prior experience with railroads, engineering or construction. They borrowed heavily to finance the project, and exploited legal loopholes to get the most possible funds from the government for their planned track construction. Disillusioned with his partners, Judah planned to recruit new investors to buy them out, but he caught yellow fever while crossing the Isthmus of Panama on his way east and died in November 1863, soon after the Central Pacific had spiked its first rails to ties in Sacramento. Meanwhile, in Omaha, Dr. Thomas Durant had illegally achieved a controlling interest in the Union Pacific Railroad Company, giving him complete authority over the project. (Durant would also illegally set up a company called Crédit Mobilier, which guaranteed him and other investors risk-free profits from the railroad's construction.) Though the Union Pacific celebrated its own launch in early December 1863, little would be completed until the end of the Civil War in 1865.

Danger Ahead: Building the Transcontinental Railroad

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After General Grenville Dodge, a hero of the Union Army, took control as chief engineer, the Union Pacific finally began to move westward in May 1866. The company suffered bloody attacks on its workers by Native Americans-including members of the Sioux, Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes-who were understandably threatened by the progress of the white man and his "iron horse" across their native lands. Still, the Union Pacific moved relatively quickly across the plains, compared to the slow progress of their rival company through the Sierra. Ramshackle settlements popped up wherever the railroad went, turning into hotbeds of drinking, gambling, prostitution and violence and producing the enduring mythology of the "Wild West."

In 1865, after struggling with retaining workers due to the difficulty of the labor, Charles Crocker (who was in charge of construction for the Central Pacific) began hiring Chinese laborers. By that time, some 50,000 Chinese immigrants were living on the West Coast, many having arrived during the Gold Rush. This was controversial at the time, as the Chinese were considered an inferior race due to pervasive racism. The Chinese laborers proved to be tireless workers, and Crocker hired more of them; some 14,000 were toiling under brutal working conditions in the Sierra Nevada by early 1867. (By contrast, the work force of the Union Pacific was mainly Irish immigrants and Civil War veterans.) To blast through the mountains, the Central Pacific built huge wooden trestles on the western slopes and used gunpowder and nitroglycerine to blast tunnels through the granite.

Driving Toward The Last Spike

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By the summer of 1867, the Union Pacific was in Wyoming, having covered nearly four times as much ground as the Central Pacific. The Central Pacific broke through the mountains in late June, however, and the hard part was finally behind them. Both companies then headed towards Salt Lake City, cutting many corners (including building shoddy bridges or sections of track that would have to be rebuilt later) in their race to get ahead.

By early 1869, the companies were working only miles from each other, and in March the newly inaugurated President Ulysses S. Grant announced he would withhold federal funds until the two railroad companies agreed on a meeting point. They decided on Promontory Summit, north of the Great Salt Lake; some 690 track-miles from Sacramento and 1,086 from Omaha. On May 10, after several delays, a crowd of workers and dignitaries watched as the final spike was driven linking the Central Pacific and Union Pacific in the "Golden Spike Ceremony."

The golden spike was made of 17.6-karat gold and was a gift of David Hewes, a San Francisco contractor and friend of "Big Four" member Leland Stanford. During the ceremony, Stanford took the first swing at the spike, but accidentally struck the tie instead. His attempt was followed by Union Pacific Thomas Durant's. Durant swung and missed - likely because of a hangover he was suffering from the previous evening's party in Ogden. A railroad worker ultimately drove the final spike at 12:47 p.m. on May 10, 1869. Telegraph cables immediately went out to President Grant and around the country with the news that the transcontinental railroad had been completed.

The golden spike was removed after the ceremony and replaced with traditional iron spikes. Three other ties-one of gold, one of silver and gold, and one of silver, were also presented at the ceremony. The original golden spike is now part of the collection of Stanford University, which was founded by Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane, in 1885 in memory of their only son.

Impact on The United States

The building of the transcontinental railroad opened up the American West to more rapid development. With the completion of the track, the travel time for making the 3,000-mile journey across the United States was cut from a matter of months to under a week. Connecting the two American coasts made the economic export of Western resources to Eastern markets easier than ever before. The railroad also facilitated westward expansion, escalating conflicts between Native American tribes and settlers who now had easier access to new territories.

Photo Galleries

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In 1862, the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroad Companies began building a transcontinental railroad that would link the United States from east to west. Over the next seven years, the two companies raced toward each other from Sacramento, California on the one side to Omaha, Nebraska on the other, struggling against great risks before they met at Promontory, Utah, on May 10, 1869.

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The first train in america  August 8, 1829... The railroad was invented by George Stephenson......

America’s first steam locomotive lost a race to a horse.

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In 1869, a golden spike linked the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad at Promontory, Utah.

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The "Golden age "of rail roading lasted from roughly the 1880s to the 1920s. No convienet way to transport things only by train. Transformed American history. Currant construction happened in 1903. More than 3 million cubic yards of rock and earth had to be removed . And 300 buildings demolished. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftKu6N3ETuk.

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many companies were sold or went bankrupt.

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1820s and 1830s the baltimore and ohio is incorparated in 1827 and offically opens in 1830.Other railroads soon follow including the Camden and Amboy by 1832.1865 Goerge pullman becomes well known for luxary sleeping cars called pullmen cars in his honnor after he loans one of his cars to house the coffin of abraham lincon after lincons death.

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The western pacific company was incorporated in 1862 to connect San Jose with Sacramento. Construction began in 1865, the railroad opened October 18. The California Pacific Railroad Company was incorporated in 1865.

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Railroads became America's first really big business. Trains were also very helpful. They brought many settlers to California and shipped many of the products of the Golden State to North America. Before the train was invented, it would cost $1,000 and about six mouths to travel between California to New Yor. But, when the train was invented, it only cost $150 and the trip would only take about a week. There was also some bad things about the train too. The train went through some tribal land and many natural resources. When the civil war was going, there was only forty miles of track in Omaha, Nebraska. Once the war ended, thousands of miles of railroad was built.