What are some interesting facts about the transcontinental railroad?

Answer 1

While traveling through Wyoming, I found it interesting that in certain places along the O.T., you can still see the ruts cut into the ground by the old wagons that traveled the trail. The journey from Missouri to Oregon Territory (approximately 2000 miles) took about 6 months to complete. Between 1849 and 1853, Asiatic Cholera was the greatest killer on the Oregon Trail

Answer 2

They are facts you say about what happend then
1. It was a 2,170 mile route traveled by the pioneers and settlers

2. It started in Minnesota and ended in Oregon City

3. The trip across the Oregon Trail started in 1841 and ended in 1869

4.The trail was for the settlers to get to the west

5. Over 50,000 settlers traveled the Oregon Trail

Answer 3

It was built by mostly chinese people. 90% of them were in fact chinese. It took them 6 years to eventually make the track and this was during the Civil War. The Driving of the Final Spike ceremony influenced Jules Verne's "Around the World in Eighty Days".