What machines were used to build the first transcontinental railroad?
What machines were used to build the first transcontinental railroad?
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Monday, June 08, 2009
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The first transcontinental railroad was built with manual labor and tools, not powered construction equipment.
"In carving through the granite mountains and advancing the rails over the high, snow covered Sierra, the pioneer railroad builders had to depend on Chinese coolies working with one-horse dump carts, wheel barrows, pick, shovel and black powder instead of dynamite, steam shovels, huge scrapers, rail-laying machines and the other power devices common to present day construction."
—"From Trail to Rail: A History of the Southern Pacific Company." Southern Pacific Bulletin, monthly installments, 1926-1928
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