USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -For almost the first two decades of statehood, immigrants had to spend months onboard ships or traveling overland to reach California. The railroad that was built across what is today the states of California, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming and Nebraska made travel across the continent possible in a matter of days.

Detailed explanation-2: -On November 10, 100 years ago, the last rails of America’s newest transcontinental railroad were laid near the remote, new, little Eastern Oregon town of Huntington. Two railroads linked lines to provide Oregon with a direct rail rout to Omaha and points east.

Detailed explanation-3: -On September 15, 1883, the first regularly scheduled Northern Pacific transcontinental passenger train to Portland arrived by way of the OR&N’s trackage from Wallula, Washington, about two hundred miles up the Columbia River.

Detailed explanation-4: -Transcontinental railroad completed, unifying United States On May 10, 1869, the presidents of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads meet in Promontory, Utah, and drive a ceremonial last spike into a rail line that connects their railroads.