The Trans-Siberian Railway. Starts (or finishes at Moscow) and goes to Vladivostok.
Moscow and Vladivostok on Russia's Pacific coast are connected by the Trans-Siberian Railroad.
The American Transcontinental Railroad goes from coast to coast. It was built by Central Pacific Railroad of California. Work started in 1863 and was finished in 1869.
1869
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad was created in 1967.
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad ended in 1983.
North Pacific Coast Railroad was created in 1871.
North Pacific Coast Railroad ended in 1902.
Gold Coast Railroad Museum was created in 1956.
Waccamaw Coast Line Railroad was created in 1987.
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad was created in 1898.
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad ended in 1967.
When the first transcontinental railroad was authorized in the early 1860s (during the civil war), the eastern terminus was fixed at Council Bluffs, Iowa/Omaha, Nebraska, a point served by several railroads at the time. Fixing the eastern terminus further east would have placed the new railroad in competition with existing lines and lengthened the length of the route to be built. Also, the transcontinental railroad was partly funded by land grants authorized by the federal government in the territories the railroad crossed; offering such land grants east of Nebraska would have been more costly and problematic.