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Value engineering.
The golden spike was used to mark the completion of the transcontinental railroad in the celebration at Promontory, Utah
The workers used tools to clear tunnels, blast through rock with explosives, and lay track.
Dynamite was not known in 1800.
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it was used to mail letters and such if i am wrong don't listen do your homework!
200,000. Ah, faithful google.
transprt their crops to the east
Telegraph lines were also built for transcontinental communication in the Pacific Railroad Act.
I would say, from a few websites I found, that 11,000 Chinese people worked on the railroad. They worked the hardest and had great skills to work on hard to fix problems they used to fix for the Great Wall of China. -KKBURT
4 foot 8½ inches (1435 mm) is "standard gauge". This is the gauge used by 60% of the railways in the world.
Value engineering.
The golden spike was used to mark the completion of the transcontinental railroad in the celebration at Promontory, Utah
The term Transcontinental Railroad is used for several rail roads on four continents. Africa, America, Australia and Eurasia. But I doubt that the full costs of all of them is available. See link below for more information on all of them.
Steam shovels, rock drills, and dynamite were used to excavate the land for the building of the Panama Canal. The Panamanian railroad ran near the excavation site and was used to haul materials.
The workers used tools to clear tunnels, blast through rock with explosives, and lay track.