Railroad Facts by Trace Miles https://padlet.com/tmiles18/ku40xnciul9 Made with charm en-us 2016-09-21 14:33:19 UTC 2024-11-11 23:25:13 UTC hello@padlet.com Linking the Nation tmiles18 https://padlet.com/tmiles18/ku40xnciul9/wish/125956081 In 1865 the United States had about 35,00 miles of railroad trace, almost all east of the Mississippi. 

]]> 2016-09-23 10:11:51 UTC https://padlet.com/tmiles18/ku40xnciul9/wish/125956081 Linking the Nation tmiles18 https://padlet.com/tmiles18/ku40xnciul9/wish/125956535 By 1900, he United States had more that 200,000 miles of track. ]]> 2016-09-23 10:14:40 UTC https://padlet.com/tmiles18/ku40xnciul9/wish/125956535 Transcontinenal Railroad tmiles18 https://padlet.com/tmiles18/ku40xnciul9/wish/125960301 The Central Pacific Railroad hired about 10,000 worker from China. They got paid about $1 a day. ]]> 2016-09-23 10:32:35 UTC https://padlet.com/tmiles18/ku40xnciul9/wish/125960301 Transcontinenal Railroad tmiles18 https://padlet.com/tmiles18/ku40xnciul9/wish/125961479 Each mile of track required 400 rails, and each rail took 10 spikes. ]]> 2016-09-23 10:37:52 UTC https://padlet.com/tmiles18/ku40xnciul9/wish/125961479 Transcontinenal Railroad tmiles18 https://padlet.com/tmiles18/ku40xnciul9/wish/125962361 The Central Pacific starting from the west, laid a total of 688 miles of track. ]]> 2016-09-23 10:41:32 UTC https://padlet.com/tmiles18/ku40xnciul9/wish/125962361 Railroads Help Close the Frontier tmiles18 https://padlet.com/tmiles18/ku40xnciul9/wish/125971098 During the 1850s and 1860s the federal land grant system gave railroads more than 120 million acres of public land. ]]> 2016-09-23 11:30:31 UTC https://padlet.com/tmiles18/ku40xnciul9/wish/125971098 The Crédit Mobilier Scandal tmiles18 https://padlet.com/tmiles18/ku40xnciul9/wish/125971678 The Credit Mobilier Scandal became public in 1872. ]]> 2016-09-23 11:34:34 UTC https://padlet.com/tmiles18/ku40xnciul9/wish/125971678 The Great Northern Railroad tmiles18 https://padlet.com/tmiles18/ku40xnciul9/wish/125973126 James Hill built the Great Northern Railroad from Wisconsin and Minnesota to Washington State. He did this without federal land grants. ]]> 2016-09-23 11:43:24 UTC https://padlet.com/tmiles18/ku40xnciul9/wish/125973126 The Great Northern Railroad tmiles18 https://padlet.com/tmiles18/ku40xnciul9/wish/125973592 The Great Northern railroad became the most successful transcontinental railroad and was one of the few railroads that was not forcedd into bankruptcy. ]]> 2016-09-23 11:46:23 UTC https://padlet.com/tmiles18/ku40xnciul9/wish/125973592