The transcontinental railroad's construction touched the lives ... and some did everything in their power to stop it. Browse a photo gallery of settlers, Native Americans, and workers whose ...
But the photo tells an incomplete story ... Built between 1863 and 1869, the Transcontinental Railroad extended the existing eastern railway network, from outside Omaha, Nebraska, to Oakland, ...
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They performed the most arduous and dangerous work despite racism, lower pay than white workers, curtailed food rations, and threats of violence from white railroad bosses. But in the famous 1869 ...
Canada already had two transcontinental railroads, the Canadian Pacific and the Canadian Northern, so why not a third?
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