The World Grew Smaller One day later, the first transcontinental freight ... Web of Rails The transcontinental railroad did not long remain the sole venue of travel through America's center.

Volpe, addressing a crowd at Promontory, Utah, hailed the ingenuity and derring-do that had revolutionized travel across ... go no further than the transcontinental railroad,” says Smithsonian ...

Have students consider which modes of transportation they might use to travel from New York ... to create a poster advertising the first transcontinental railroad. Encourage them to include ...