How long did it take to build the railroad?
From: "Camila Mora" camila@themoras.net
How long did it take to build the railroad across the country?
posted from CPRR Discussion Group at 11:09 PM
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
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4 Comments:
The first transcontinental railroad from Omaha, Nebraska to Sacramento, California was built from 1863-1869.
How would you answer this question, if "across the country" means from the East coast?
From: kylewyatt@aol.com
It took from the first railroad construction in the early 1830s until 1869 to build across the country ... and it was 1883 (January 12) before a single railroad (the Southern Pacific) actually completed its own line connecing the Pacific with the Atlantic (Gulf of Mexico - New Orleans). Southern Pacific began that construction in 1868 (or there abouts, unless you want to choose the start date of the San Francisco & San Jose in the early 1860s).
—Kyle
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