Milestones ...

"Milestones ... " by Ruth Browning, © The Daily Citizen, Searcy, Arkansas, June 3, 2006. (Opinion)

" ... June 4, 1876: On this day an express train called the 'Transcontinental Express' arrived in San Francisco, having traveled the First Transcontinental Railroad in only 83 hours and 39 minutes after it left New York City. This was only seven years after the railroad had been completed . ... " [More]

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