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  2. First transcontinental railroad - Wikipedia

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    America's first transcontinental railroad (known originally as the "Pacific Railroad" and later as the "Overland Route") was a 1,911-mile (3,075 km) continuous railroad line built between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Council Bluffs, Iowa, with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay. [1]

  3. Golden spike - Wikipedia

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    The original "golden spike", on display at the Cantor Arts Museum at Stanford University. The Golden Spike (also known as The Last Spike [1]) is the ceremonial 17.6-karat gold final spike driven by Leland Stanford to join the rails of the first transcontinental railroad across the United States connecting the Central Pacific Railroad from Sacramento and the Union Pacific Railroad from Omaha on ...

  4. Union Pacific No. 119 - Wikipedia

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    No. 119 was assigned to the Union Pacific Railroad's Utah Division, carrying trains between Rawlins, Wyoming and Ogden, Utah, [2] and was stationed in the latter when a call for a replacement engine came from vice-president Thomas C. Durant, to take him to Promontory Ridge, Utah Territory, for the Golden Spike ceremony celebrating the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad.

  5. Overland Route (Union Pacific Railroad) - Wikipedia

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    The Overland Limited leaving 16th Street station (Oakland), in 1906. The Overland Route was a train route operated jointly by the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad/Southern Pacific Railroad, between the eastern termini of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Omaha, Nebraska, [1] and the San Francisco Bay Area, over the grade of the first transcontinental railroad (aka the "Pacific ...

  6. History of the Union Pacific Railroad - Wikipedia

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    The two lines were joined in Utah on May 10, 1869, hence creating the first transcontinental railroad in North America. Interstate 80 , built in the 1950s, paralleled the UPRR main line. In 1870 the fare in coach from Omaha to San Francisco was $33.20 ($800.00 in 2023), with sleeper cars costing extra.

  7. Transcontinental railroad - Wikipedia

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    The first transcontinental railroad in Europe, that connected the North Sea or the English Channel with the Mediterranean Sea, was a series of lines that included the Paris–Marseille railway, in service 1856. Multiple railways north of Paris were in operation at that time, such as Paris–Lille railway and Paris–Le Havre railway.

  8. Learn more about the first transcontinental highway at ... - AOL

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    ELKHART — Ruthmere Museum presents the gallery talk “The Lincoln Highway: Not Just a Blue Line” at 11a.m. Sept. 5 at 302 E. Beardsley Ave.

  9. History of rail in Oregon - Wikipedia

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    A map of Willamette Valley rail lines from 1919. Byron J. Pengra, the Surveyor General of Oregon from 1862 to 1865, secured a federal land grant in 1864 for the Oregon Central Military Wagon Road from Eugene to Owyhee, and proposed a railroad along this line, then joining the transcontinental railroad near Winnemucca, Nevada.