On May 10, 1869, the First Transcontinental Railroad was completed after nearly six years of construction, making travel and trade between the east and west coast easier than ever before.

First, it was at the local and state levels ... wall still standing that Chinese workers built for the transcontinental railroad. Locals have named it "the China Wall.") Central Pacific Railroad ...

Kwan, the first Chinese American to sit in the Utah Legislature, has ancestors who worked on the transcontinental railroad — but, because names were not taken, she said, she doesn’t know ...

to join the Central Pacific to the Union Pacific and complete the country’s first transcontinental railroad, the news electrified the country.* A single word dispatched by telegram to the newspa ...

continuous railroad that would unite America’s east and west coasts dates back to the 1830s, not long after the introduction of the country’s first steam locomotive. A transcontinental ...

Two railroad companies had spent six years on one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects of the 19th century: the construction of the first transcontinental railroad. One company had built ...