USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -By 1880, the transcontinental railroad was transporting $50 million worth of freight each year. In addition to transporting western food crops and raw materials to East Coast markets and manufactured goods from East Coast cities to the West Coast, the railroad also facilitated international trade.

Detailed explanation-2: -Were there still wagon trains in 1883? Yes there were still wagon trains in 1883. There were then still many areas in the American West that were not served by any railroads. Moreover travel by rail, where it did exist, was not cheap, so many poor families could only afford to travel by wagon.

Detailed explanation-3: -On Sept. 5, 1876, the first train from San Francisco arrived in Los Angeles. The era of mass transportation in California, an innovation that would help shape the state over decades and up to the present day, was underway.

Detailed explanation-4: -Locomotion No. 1 was built by George Stephenson at his son Robert’s company, the Robert Stephenson and Company. George Stephenson drove the first train. The engine was called Active (later renamed Locomotion).