https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu Made with good vibes en-us 2016-09-23 04:30:49 UTC 2025-09-24 02:58:05 UTC hello@padlet.com rperrine18 https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125914527 1. In about 5 years the amount of railroad grew from 35,000 to 200,000 miles of track.

]]> 2016-09-23 04:44:36 UTC https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125914527 rperrine18 https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125914596 2. Because of a shortage of labor in California, the Central Pacific Railroad hired 10,000 workers from China and payed them $1 a day. ]]> 2016-09-23 04:45:44 UTC https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125914596 rperrine18 https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125914754 3. Workers completed the whole Transcontinental Railroad in only 4 years. ]]> 2016-09-23 04:48:38 UTC https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125914754 rperrine18 https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125914901 4. Each mile of track required 400 rails, each rail had 10 spikes. ]]> 2016-09-23 04:51:37 UTC https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125914901 rperrine18 https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125914924 5. Ath the point where Central Pacific and Union Pacific tracks met they held a ceremony and hammered 5 gold spikes. ]]> 2016-09-23 04:52:16 UTC https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125914924 rperrine18 https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125915000 6. Transcontinental Railroad was the first of many lines that began crisscrossing the nation after the civil war . ]]> 2016-09-23 04:53:57 UTC https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125915000 rperrine18 https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125915042 7.  New locomotive technology and the invention of air brakes enabled railroads to put longer and heavier trains on their lines. ]]> 2016-09-23 04:55:11 UTC https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125915042 rperrine18 https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125915099 8.  When combined with the new integrated rail systems, operations became so efficient that the average rate per mile for a ton of freight dropped from two cents in 1860 to three-quarters of a cent in 1900.]]> 2016-09-23 04:56:35 UTC https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125915099 rperrine18 https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125915187 2016-09-23 04:59:14 UTC https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125915187 rperrine18 https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125915223 2016-09-23 04:59:57 UTC https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125915223 rperrine18 https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125915312 2016-09-23 05:01:59 UTC https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125915312 rperrine18 https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125915366 2016-09-23 05:03:07 UTC https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125915366 rperrine18 https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125915397 1.  The great wealth many railroad entrepreneurs acquired in the late 1800s led to accusations that they had built their fortunes by swindling investors and taxpayers, bribing officials, and cheating on their contracts and debts. ]]> 2016-09-23 05:04:10 UTC https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125915397 rperrine18 https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125915419 2. Jay Gould was perhaps the most notoriously corrupt railroad owner who practiced "insider trading" and manipulated stock prices. ]]> 2016-09-23 05:04:46 UTC https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125915419 rperrine18 https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125915446 3.  Corruption in the railroad industry became public in 1872 with the Crédit Mobilier scandal. ]]> 2016-09-23 05:05:34 UTC https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125915446 rperrine18 https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125915462 4.  To convince Congress to give the railroad more grants, Ames sold other members of Congress shares at a price well below their market value.]]> 2016-09-23 05:06:08 UTC https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125915462 rperrine18 https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125915486 5.  Not all railroad men were robber barons. James J. Hill was clearly not. Hill built the Great Northern Railroad from Wisconsin and Minnesota to Washington state without any federal land grants or subsidies.]]> 2016-09-23 05:06:47 UTC https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125915486 rperrine18 https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125915521 6. He also identified products that were in demand in China, including cotton, textiles, and flour, and hauled those goods to Washington to ship to Asia. ]]> 2016-09-23 05:07:32 UTC https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125915521 rperrine18 https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125915541 7.  The Great Northern became the most successful transcontinental railroad and one of the few railroads of the time that was not eventually forced into bankruptcy.]]> 2016-09-23 05:08:09 UTC https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125915541 rperrine18 https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125915650 2016-09-23 05:10:54 UTC https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125915650 rperrine18 https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125915688 2016-09-23 05:11:45 UTC https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125915688 rperrine18 https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125915719 2016-09-23 05:12:32 UTC https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125915719 rperrine18 https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125915770 2016-09-23 05:14:01 UTC https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125915770 rperrine18 https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125992478 8. Crédit Mobilier was a construction company set up by several stockholders of the Union Pacific Railroad, including Oakes Ames, a member of Congress.]]> 2016-09-23 13:00:16 UTC https://padlet.com/rperrine18/9f7ldf8rfnu/wish/125992478