With the completion of its great railroad, America gave birth to a transcontinental culture ... 1900 a number of routes ran parallel — the Northern Pacific and Southern Pacific among them ...

Transcontinental railroads of the time ... Minnesota-based railroad (which will become the Great Northern Railway Company) across the rugged terrain of the Pacific Northwest.

A bronze plaque identifies it as a re-creation of the “Laurel Tie,” the ceremonial final crossbeam laid in Utah to complete the Transcontinental ... railroad workers on the Great Northern ...

Canada already had two transcontinental railroads, the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Canadian Northern Railway, so why not a third? The Sir Wilfrid Laurier government wanted to build a new ...

Peru, Brazil and China are moving forward on a transcontinental railway that will cut across the continent, climb the Andes and connect port cities in the Pacific and Atlantic coasts. The 10bn ...

It was eight million square kilometres, which included parts of what are now northern Quebec ... together by his pet project - the great transcontinental railroad. Macdonald won the 1878 election ...

Situated at the northern edge of Old Sacramento ... the role of women and Chinese workers in building the transcontinental railroad. There are also exhibits on toy trains and the world of model ...