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Contents. First transcontinental railroad. 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 ...
Appearance. Transcontinental railroads in and near the United States by 1887. A transcontinental railroad or transcontinental railway is contiguous railroad trackage, [ 1 ] that crosses a continental land mass and has terminals at different oceans or continental borders. Such networks can be via the tracks of either a single railroad or over ...
A transcontinental flight is a non-stop passenger flight from one side of a continent to the other. [1] ... New York, on September 17, 1911, at 4:30 pm, carrying the ...
Timeline of North American telegraphy. January 22, 1848 map in New York Herald showing extent of existing and planned North American telegraph lines. At this time, the service area for the United States reached Petersburg, Virginia in the south, Portland, Maine in the northeast, Cleveland, Ohio in the northwest, and as far west as East St ...
The Lincoln Highway is one of the first transcontinental highways in the United States and one of the first highways designed expressly for automobiles. [1][2] Conceived in 1912 by Indiana entrepreneur Carl G. Fisher, and formally dedicated October 31, 1913, the Lincoln Highway runs coast-to-coast from Times Square in New York City west to ...
Asa Whitney (1797–1872) was a highly successful dry-goods merchant and transcontinental railroad promoter. [1] He was one of the first backers of an American transcontinental railway. A trip to China in 1842–44 impressed upon Whitney the need for a transcontinental railroad from the Atlantic to the Pacific. [2][3]
Theodore Judah was born in 1826 (perhaps 1825 [1]) in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the son of Mary (Reece) and The Rev. Henry Raymond Judah, an Episcopal clergyman. [2] After his family moved to Troy, New York, Judah attended the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, then called the Rensselaer Institute in 1837 for a term [3] and developed at a young age a passion for engineering and railroads.
Dale Creek Crossing, completed in 1868 as part of the First transcontinental railroad. The Crédit Mobilier scandal (French pronunciation: [kʁedi mɔbilje]) was a two-part fraud conducted from 1864 to 1867 by the Union Pacific Railroad and the Crédit Mobilier of America construction company in the building of the eastern portion of the first transcontinental railroad from the Missouri River ...