USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Returning home, he informed his wife, “Anna, I am going to California to be the pioneering railroad engineer of the Pacific coast.” His enthusiasm earned him the nickname “Crazy Judah, ” but by 1856 Theodore Judah and his men had built the Sacramento Valley Line, the first railroad west of the Missouri River.

Detailed explanation-2: -One of the early and most prominent people making the case for a transcontinental railroad was Asa Whitney. In 1849 he published his ideas on the idea of a railroad that began in Chicago and went to California. There were many others who also joined the chorus.

Detailed explanation-3: -Theodore Judah (1826-1863) Judah was a brilliant civil engineer who dreamed of building a transcontinental railroad. He worked tirelessly surveying a route for a railroad to connect California to the rest of the country. Judah convinced several Sacramento businessmen to invest in the Central Pacific Railroad.

Detailed explanation-4: -NARA Grenville Mellen Dodge, acclaimed as “the man who built the Transcontinental Railroad.” The first transcontinental railroad of the United States is like many other historic civil engineering milestones.