USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The story goes that on May 10, 1869, the Central Pacific Railroad’s tracks from the west were connected to the Union Pacific Railroad’s tracks from the east in Promontory Summit, Utah.

Detailed explanation-2: -Rising in the Rocky Mountains of the Eastern Centennial Mountains of Southwestern Montana, the Missouri flows east and south for 2, 341 miles (3, 767 km) before entering the Mississippi River north of St. Louis, Missouri.

Detailed explanation-3: -It would begin in Omaha, Nebraska and end up in Sacramento, California.

Detailed explanation-4: -By connecting the existing eastern U.S. rail networks to the west coast, the Transcontinental Railroad (known originally as the “Pacific Railroad") became the first continuous railroad line across the United States. It was constructed between 1863 and 1869.