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For an adult to get a sleeping car on the first transcontinental railroad would cost $65.00.
idk but the transcontinental railroad cost about 50 million dollars ~nyan caaat
The ticket price for the Transcontinental Railroad depends on the route. The longer the distance between start and terminal the more the ticket will cost.
about 50 cents for the cheapest.
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.
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200,000. Ah, faithful google.
It made traveling for people faster and safer, it made shipping goods much faster, and many products cost less than ever before.
White Americans justified the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad with the concept of Manifest Destiny. They believed that the United States was meant to control as much land as possible. To accomplish this, the country must first stretch "from sea to shining sea." A railroad that spanned the entire nation would help to achieve this goal. However, to get the land for a railroad, Native American rights to territory had to be taken away as quickly as possibly to make way for construction.
it was a railroad cross!ng the country making it much easier to expand west and help western cities grow
Because it made travel and transportation of goods much faster. They didn't have cars in 1869 when the first Transcontinental Railroad was built in America, so long trips could easily take months before they built it.
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