Railroad Facts by Casey Sanders https://padlet.com/casey_sanders2/3a1kise3j2i2 One interesting fact about the Transcontinental Railroad that few people may know. Find and picture and post. en-us 2019-02-08 18:49:00 UTC 2024-10-14 08:30:23 UTC hello@padlet.com The Chosen Transcontinental Railroad Route Required Workers to Dig 19 Tunnels. ploof_dustin https://padlet.com/casey_sanders2/3a1kise3j2i2/wish/330362425 2019-02-12 15:01:27 UTC https://padlet.com/casey_sanders2/3a1kise3j2i2/wish/330362425 The railroad was 1776 miles long https://padlet.com/casey_sanders2/3a1kise3j2i2/wish/330497746 2019-02-12 18:42:42 UTC https://padlet.com/casey_sanders2/3a1kise3j2i2/wish/330497746 Even though it didn't start being built until four years after President Lincoln died, the Transcontinental Railroad was very important to him. https://padlet.com/casey_sanders2/3a1kise3j2i2/wish/330501291   ]]> 2019-02-12 18:48:22 UTC https://padlet.com/casey_sanders2/3a1kise3j2i2/wish/330501291 The Golden Spike is on display today at Stanford University in California penrose_samuel https://padlet.com/casey_sanders2/3a1kise3j2i2/wish/330501646   ]]> 2019-02-12 18:48:54 UTC https://padlet.com/casey_sanders2/3a1kise3j2i2/wish/330501646 https://padlet.com/casey_sanders2/3a1kise3j2i2/wish/330502309 2019-02-12 18:50:07 UTC https://padlet.com/casey_sanders2/3a1kise3j2i2/wish/330502309 https://padlet.com/casey_sanders2/3a1kise3j2i2/wish/330955801 Even though President Lincoln died four years after the Transcontinental Railroad started to be built, it was very to important to him.  ]]> 2019-02-13 18:12:35 UTC https://padlet.com/casey_sanders2/3a1kise3j2i2/wish/330955801 In 1869, Governor Stanford drove the last spike into the track, this spike is often called the Golden Spike. The spike was only gold plated because real gold would have been way to soft. This spike is displayed in Stanford University in California. The pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad built one railroad called the Transcontinental Railroad. https://padlet.com/casey_sanders2/3a1kise3j2i2/wish/330957011 2019-02-13 18:14:18 UTC https://padlet.com/casey_sanders2/3a1kise3j2i2/wish/330957011 penrose_samuel https://padlet.com/casey_sanders2/3a1kise3j2i2/wish/330957150 In 1869 the presidents of the union pacific ]]> 2019-02-13 18:14:28 UTC https://padlet.com/casey_sanders2/3a1kise3j2i2/wish/330957150 Eight Irish track layers put down 3,520 rails, while other workers laid 25,800 ties and drove 28,160 spikes in a single day. https://padlet.com/casey_sanders2/3a1kise3j2i2/wish/330957332 2019-02-13 18:14:47 UTC https://padlet.com/casey_sanders2/3a1kise3j2i2/wish/330957332 mestes_erin https://padlet.com/casey_sanders2/3a1kise3j2i2/wish/330957635  
The pacific railroad and the union pacific railroad built one railroad together in 1862 and the railroad was called the transcontinental railroad the two  companies started on different ends of the U.S. and met in Promontory Utah on May 10, 1869 the railroad took seven years to build. It also cost $1,000 dollars to cross the country by train and after the railroad was built the price dropped down to $150 because the transcontinental railroad went all the way across the U.S.

 
]]> 2019-02-13 18:15:12 UTC https://padlet.com/casey_sanders2/3a1kise3j2i2/wish/330957635 https://padlet.com/casey_sanders2/3a1kise3j2i2/wish/330958420 2019-02-13 18:16:20 UTC https://padlet.com/casey_sanders2/3a1kise3j2i2/wish/330958420 penrose_samuel https://padlet.com/casey_sanders2/3a1kise3j2i2/wish/330958618 In 1869 the presd]]> 2019-02-13 18:16:37 UTC https://padlet.com/casey_sanders2/3a1kise3j2i2/wish/330958618 https://padlet.com/casey_sanders2/3a1kise3j2i2/wish/330959790 The Union Pacific Hired Mainly Irish Immigrants to build there part of the transcontinental railway.The Central Pacific hired Chinese.  ]]> 2019-02-13 18:18:17 UTC https://padlet.com/casey_sanders2/3a1kise3j2i2/wish/330959790 https://padlet.com/casey_sanders2/3a1kise3j2i2/wish/330961990 the civil war was the first war when railroads were commonly used to transport soldiers and supplies like gun powder, guns and other useful materials]]> 2019-02-13 18:21:53 UTC https://padlet.com/casey_sanders2/3a1kise3j2i2/wish/330961990