USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Eight Irish tracklayers put down 3, 520 rails, while other workers laid 25, 800 ties and drove 28, 160 spikes in a single day. On May 10, 1869, at Promontory Summit, Utah, a golden spike was hammered into the final tie. The transcontinental railroad was built in six years almost entirely by hand.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -The longest railway in the world, this striking line connects Moscow with Vladivostok, covering a distance of 9, 198 kilometres. One of the boldest construction works of modern times, it took more than twenty-five years and great effort to build.

Detailed explanation-4: -Work began from both sides of the country, meeting at Promontory, Utah, in 1869. During those six years workers laid some 1, 800 miles (2, 900 kilometers) of track from Nebraska to California. Today various freight and passenger railroads still use sections of the line.

Detailed explanation-5: -Prior to the opening of the transcontinental railroad, it took four to six months to travel 2000 miles from the Missouri River to California by wagon. January 1863 – Central Pacific Railroad breaks ground on its portion of the railroad at Sacramento, California; the first rail is laid in October 1863.