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the first transcontinental railroad met in the middle at Promontory Point ,Utah
Started in Britain in the 1700s! No one knows for sure because it was so large scale that its hard to tell!
No. The English have nowhere to build a transcontinental railroad; they are on an island. The US was the first to begin such a railroad - aptly named the First Trascontinental Railroad - and the Russians soon followed with the Trans-Siberian Railway.
The railroad needed builders, and those builders lived in new towns along the railroad. Settlers moved with the railroad because they could get lots of land and still have access to manufactured goods from the East because the railroad allowed for the transportation of those goods.
The western starting point for the first transcontinental rail road was at Sacramento, California.
why did they build the transcontinental railroad
The Chinese started building the Transcontinental railroad in 1863 and the Transcontinental railroad was finished in 1869.
Chinese Immigrants played a major role in building the first transcontinental railroad.
yes there were a few of animals that did suffer while building the transcontinental railroad.
The main reason for building the transcontinental was to transport good from the east to the west.
why did they build the transcontinental railroad
Yes Abraham Lincoln did get employed for help building the first transcontinental railroad
-The building of the transcontinental railroad started
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the pacific railroad act helped fund the building of the railroad and it gave the railroad company land.
the Chinese chipped their way through the Sierra Nevada Mountains and they hung from baskets when they did it. they were a big help to the dangerous job of building the Transcontinental railroad.
Theodore Judah dreamed of building a railroad in the US that connected the west to the east - a transcontinental railroad.