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Hand tools such as picks, shovels, wheelbarrows, hand-powered augers (drills), sledgehammers, levels and transits would have been necessary to build and complete the world's first transcontinental railroad in the US.

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What kind tools did they use to build transcontinental railroad?

Hand tools such as picks, shovels, wheelbarrows, hand-powered augers (drills), sledgehammers, levels and transits would have been necessary to build and complete the world's first transcontinental railroad in the US.


What was the direct result of building the transcontinental railroad?

The use of chinese immagrants to build the line


Use transcontinental in a sentence?

Transcontinental just means crossing a continent. Transcontinental is an adjective. Most people think of the transcontinental railroad when they see this word. Transcontinental only has one meaning.


Why was the construction of the transcontinental railroad succedssful?

The use of Irish immigrants as workers, the use of veterans of the civil war.


Transcontinental railroad facts?

The day the Transcontinental Railroad was finished, the workers drove a golden spike to connect the 2 railroads to form one. Also the transcontinental railroad was made so people could cross the United States faster.You could travel first class across the country in four days.Only parts of the Transcontinental Railroad are in use today.The Central Pacific had to blast 19 tunnels through the Sierra Nevada.Before the railroad, to get to California from the east coast by boat took about 190 days.It took the work of thousands of men to build the Transcontinental Railroad.The entire project of the building of the railroad costed hundreds of millions of dollars. And that was the cost in the nineteenth century who knows what it could cost now. Maybe, billions, or even trillions of dollars! two thirds of the workers were Asian the other was American and Irish.


When building of the first transcontinental railroad involved extensive use of immigrant laborers from were?

well the answer is Ireland and china


How can western farmers use the transcontinental railroad to make money?

The farmers made money by planting crops and other things


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What tools did the Romans use to build the colosseum?

tools


Why do people use construction tools?

People use construction tools to construct and build things.


Which group of laborers did most of the work on the transcontinental railroad?

ChineseApex


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