The link at Promontory Point in Utah took place four months earlier. The final link in the transcontinental railroad was not at the much-celebrated meeting of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific ...

Just six months after the meeting ... The transcontinental railroad did not long remain the sole venue of travel through America's center. Lines spiderwebbed outward from its branch points ...

Asa Whitney presents a resolution in Congress endorsing the funding of a railroad to the Pacific ... It does not designate a meeting point for the lines. January 8: Newly-elected California ...

Actually, 10,000 to 20,000 immigrant Chinese laborers had helped forge the Central Pacific’s path over the Sierra Nevada to its historic 1869 meeting with the Union Pacific. The “silent spikes ...

The first transcontinental railroad was built with blood ... More than 2km high, it’s the highest point on the route. It means 500ms of rock must be excavated, the longest tunnel on the route.