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.
The "Big Four" are the major investors in the Transcontinental Railroad (known at the time as the Pacific Railroad) They were Theodore Judah, who unfortunately died early while it was being built, but he was the father of it. Leland Standford, who later became governor of California, Collis Huntington, and Charles Crocker.
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Freight train
reading railroad, Pennsylvania railroad, B. & O. railroad, short line railroad
Specific names of ships, trains and planes are capitalized. Otherwise, the words ship, train, or plane are not capitalized.
The names are all 1800s Railroads: The Short Line Railroad; The Reading Railroad; and the Pennsylvania Railroad.
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B&O Railroad, Short Line, Reading Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_(game)#Atlantic_City_version
Some names of conductors that worked on the Underground Railroad are: Frederick Douglass, Josiah Hensen, John Mason, Levi Coffin, Laura Haviland, John Fairfield.
Some names of conductors that worked on the Underground Railroad are: Frederick Douglass, Josiah Hensen, John Mason, Levi Coffin, Laura Haviland, John Fairfield.