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What was the most track laid in one day during the construction of the transcontinental railroad?
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What is the transcontinental railroad-?
a railroad that runs across the contient... the transcontinental railroad is a railroad that reaches from North Carolina to California.
How many miles of track was laid for the transcontinental railroad?
68,000 miles
What is a word that starts with the letter y that relates to the transcontinental railroad?
Brigham Young, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was involved in the construction of the transcontinental railroad in Utah. He obtained contracts with the Union Pacific to build the railroad through Utah. Mormons then built the Union Pacific track in the Utah territory.
What were the names of the two railroad companies that completed the Transcontinental Railroad?
The two railroad companies involved in the transcontinental railroad were the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific. They completed the track on May 10, 1869 at Promontory Summit, Utah.
How many miles of track made up the transcontinental railroad?
1774 miles
Who built the track of the Transcontinental Railroad that began in Omaha Nebraska?
The transcontinental railroad was built by the Union Pacific Railroad going west from Omaha, Nebraska. They built their part of the railroad to Promontory, Utah. The Central Pacific Railroad built the other part of the transcontinental railroad starting in Sacramento, California and built east meeting the Union Pacific Railroad.
What are the jobs on the transcontinental railroad?
track layers and scouters,supply runners for the central pacific too.
What was date construction began on Transcontinental Railroad?
Talk of a transcontinental railroad started in 1830, shortly after steam powered railroads were invented in Great Britain and began to be introduced into the United States. This talk intensified as railroad technology advanced and the Oregon Territory and California were added to United States Territory in 1846.
What two railroads were in charge of laying track to complete the transcontinental railroad?
Central Pacific & Union Pacific.
The Transcontinental Railroad track that was built by Thomas Durant's company and the track that was built by Leland Stanford's company met in?
Promontory Point, Utah.
What two railroad companies made the transcontinental railroad?
The two companies that worked on the transcontinental railroad were the Union Pacific and Central Pacific. The Union Pacific started at Omaha and the Central started in CA.
Did the Germans help build the transcontinental railroad?
I have been researching this topic and in the childrens book, "Life in the Old West- The Railroad" it said that the Germans were involved in building the track.
