The Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869, connecting the Union Pacific Railroad from the east to the Central Pacific Railroad from the west. This unprecedented engineering feat joined the Atlantic and Pacific oceans by rail for the first time. While the railroad was built for national defense and to unite the country, it also made a handful of men immensely wealthy, including Leland Stanford, Collis Huntington, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker of the Central Pacific, and Thomas Durant of the Union Pacific. The completion of the Transcontinental Railroad transformed the United States by enabling rapid population growth in the West, spurring additional rail construction, and symbolizing the vast opportunities available in the newly opened western territories.
Presidential Abraham Lincoln signed a bill on July 1, 1862 to author.pdfajanthakadhar
Presidential Abraham Lincoln signed a bill on July 1, 1862 to authorize the construction of the
first transcontinental railroad. On May 10, 1869, several years ahead of the timeline, the Pacific
Railroad was completed at a joyous ceremony in Promontory Summit, Utah. Suppose the train
coming from the East, actually called No. 119, came to a flat part of the country and could travel
at a constant speed of 32 miles per hour for many miles.
A) If the train ran for 3.5 hours before altering its speed, how far did the train travel during that
stretch of the transcontinental strip?
B) Show the formula and steps you utilized to arrive at your answer. Include the appropriate
units in each step of your work.
Velocity is the change in position divided by the change in times. Speed is the absolute value of
velocity. Since the train originated from the train station and is traveling away from the train
station, we will say that this train had a positive velocity.
C) For the train to have a negative velocity, it would have to ______.
D) Draw a graph of the velocity function on the grid. Scale the axes and name the vertical axis
as v(t) mph and the horizontal axis as t hours
E) Explain how the graoh of the velocity function can be used to calculate the toal distance the
train traveled in 3.5 hours.
Solution
The Transcontinental Railroad was the result of the U.S. commitment to Manifest
Destiny and its burgeoning industrial might. Long distances and slow transportation hampered
contact between eastern and western commercial centers. Both the United States government and
entrepreneurs sought faster transportation to link the two sections. For a decade after 1850,
Congress studied possible transcontinental routes, but arguments over sectionalism and slavery
blocked all plans. Not until after the South seceded and the Civil War had begun could Congress
pass an effective transcontinental plan, the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862. It called for two
railroad companies to complete the transcontinental line. The railroad would be a \"land-grant
railroad,\" meaning that the government would give each company 6,400 acres of land and up to
$48,000 for every mile of track it built. The money capitalized the project, and the railroads
could use the land to entice settlers to the West, who in turn would need the railroads to haul
freight. But Congress, afraid to fund a project that would never be completed, wrote a caveat into
the act: the railroads had to complete the project by July 1,1876, or they would forfeit the land,
money, and all of the constructed track. The Union Pacific Railroad, a corporation formed for
the venture, would build the eastern half of the line starting in Nebraska. The Central Pacific
Railroad, owned by a group of California entrepreneurs including Collis Huntington and Leland
Stanford, would build the western half. Preliminary work began, even as the nation still fought
the Civil War. Surveyors and engineers had to scout and map workable routes. Af.
By Brandon FooThe Race Across America The First Trans.docxhumphrieskalyn
By Brandon Foo
The Race Across America: The First Transcontinental Railroad
Introduction:The transcontinental railroad was an innovated technology by conveniently and efficiently letting people travel across the country. Replacing months of travel to mere weeks, it allowed communication and trade across vast amounts of distances. It employed both Chinese immigrants and Irish workers who helped build the railroad. After it was completed, it united the country together and helped build the way for commerce, people and ideas to travel from the east to the west.
Union Pacific Railroad
Part 1: How it was builtThe Union Pacific Railroad would start at Omaha, Nebraska and go west
Central Pacific RailroadThe Central Pacific Railroad would start at Sacramento, California and go east
Pacific Railroad Acts of 1862 and 1864It outlined how the railroad was going to be built, the route it was going to take and how it was going to get funded. The path that they would go through followed the established Oregon and California trails, which was used at the time by wagon trains, stagecoach lines and the Pony Express.
Black Powder/Nitroglycerin
Part 2: Technology UsageBlack powder was usually used to blast through the hard rock, but some situations, nitroglycerin had to be used. Nitroglycerin at the time was fairly new as a blasting tool and was very dangerous to transport, so they had to make it on the site.
Telegraph LinesBrought instant communication to people working along the tracks to people across the nationUsed on the day the railroad was completed where telecommunication lines were wrapped around the last spike on the track and whenever the person struck the spike, the sound pulsated across the nation.
Snow sheds
Part 2 ContinuedSnow and avalanches were delaying construction and supervisors had to devise a plan to overcome it. Snow sheds were built by making a shelter over the tracks so the snow would not interfere the construction of the railroad
Bridges/Trestle BridgesTrestle bridges were built when there was a deep gorge that the railroad had to go over and was usually built with timber until it could have been replaced with iron, which is more durable and permeant.
Chinese Immigrants
Part 3: Social ImpactThe Chinese were the backbone of building the tracks for the Central Pacific and compromised nearly 80% of the workforce They worked in eight hour shifts and only stopped when another person had to put in the black powder, where they lit fuse and would then run to a safe distance to avoid the explosion.
Irish Immigrants and Civil War VeteransOn the Union Pacific Railroad, it mostly consisted of Irish immigrants and Civil War Veterans.The Irish workers and veterans constantly got drunk, went to brothels and gambling dens which brought a lot of vices to the towns that the tracks went through.
Mormons
Part 3 ContinuedThe main reason why the Mormons worked on the railroad was because it would go through the Utah territ ...
Presidential Abraham Lincoln signed a bill on July 1, 1862 to author.pdfajanthakadhar
Presidential Abraham Lincoln signed a bill on July 1, 1862 to authorize the construction of the
first transcontinental railroad. On May 10, 1869, several years ahead of the timeline, the Pacific
Railroad was completed at a joyous ceremony in Promontory Summit, Utah. Suppose the train
coming from the East, actually called No. 119, came to a flat part of the country and could travel
at a constant speed of 32 miles per hour for many miles.
A) If the train ran for 3.5 hours before altering its speed, how far did the train travel during that
stretch of the transcontinental strip?
B) Show the formula and steps you utilized to arrive at your answer. Include the appropriate
units in each step of your work.
Velocity is the change in position divided by the change in times. Speed is the absolute value of
velocity. Since the train originated from the train station and is traveling away from the train
station, we will say that this train had a positive velocity.
C) For the train to have a negative velocity, it would have to ______.
D) Draw a graph of the velocity function on the grid. Scale the axes and name the vertical axis
as v(t) mph and the horizontal axis as t hours
E) Explain how the graoh of the velocity function can be used to calculate the toal distance the
train traveled in 3.5 hours.
Solution
The Transcontinental Railroad was the result of the U.S. commitment to Manifest
Destiny and its burgeoning industrial might. Long distances and slow transportation hampered
contact between eastern and western commercial centers. Both the United States government and
entrepreneurs sought faster transportation to link the two sections. For a decade after 1850,
Congress studied possible transcontinental routes, but arguments over sectionalism and slavery
blocked all plans. Not until after the South seceded and the Civil War had begun could Congress
pass an effective transcontinental plan, the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862. It called for two
railroad companies to complete the transcontinental line. The railroad would be a \"land-grant
railroad,\" meaning that the government would give each company 6,400 acres of land and up to
$48,000 for every mile of track it built. The money capitalized the project, and the railroads
could use the land to entice settlers to the West, who in turn would need the railroads to haul
freight. But Congress, afraid to fund a project that would never be completed, wrote a caveat into
the act: the railroads had to complete the project by July 1,1876, or they would forfeit the land,
money, and all of the constructed track. The Union Pacific Railroad, a corporation formed for
the venture, would build the eastern half of the line starting in Nebraska. The Central Pacific
Railroad, owned by a group of California entrepreneurs including Collis Huntington and Leland
Stanford, would build the western half. Preliminary work began, even as the nation still fought
the Civil War. Surveyors and engineers had to scout and map workable routes. Af.
By Brandon FooThe Race Across America The First Trans.docxhumphrieskalyn
By Brandon Foo
The Race Across America: The First Transcontinental Railroad
Introduction:The transcontinental railroad was an innovated technology by conveniently and efficiently letting people travel across the country. Replacing months of travel to mere weeks, it allowed communication and trade across vast amounts of distances. It employed both Chinese immigrants and Irish workers who helped build the railroad. After it was completed, it united the country together and helped build the way for commerce, people and ideas to travel from the east to the west.
Union Pacific Railroad
Part 1: How it was builtThe Union Pacific Railroad would start at Omaha, Nebraska and go west
Central Pacific RailroadThe Central Pacific Railroad would start at Sacramento, California and go east
Pacific Railroad Acts of 1862 and 1864It outlined how the railroad was going to be built, the route it was going to take and how it was going to get funded. The path that they would go through followed the established Oregon and California trails, which was used at the time by wagon trains, stagecoach lines and the Pony Express.
Black Powder/Nitroglycerin
Part 2: Technology UsageBlack powder was usually used to blast through the hard rock, but some situations, nitroglycerin had to be used. Nitroglycerin at the time was fairly new as a blasting tool and was very dangerous to transport, so they had to make it on the site.
Telegraph LinesBrought instant communication to people working along the tracks to people across the nationUsed on the day the railroad was completed where telecommunication lines were wrapped around the last spike on the track and whenever the person struck the spike, the sound pulsated across the nation.
Snow sheds
Part 2 ContinuedSnow and avalanches were delaying construction and supervisors had to devise a plan to overcome it. Snow sheds were built by making a shelter over the tracks so the snow would not interfere the construction of the railroad
Bridges/Trestle BridgesTrestle bridges were built when there was a deep gorge that the railroad had to go over and was usually built with timber until it could have been replaced with iron, which is more durable and permeant.
Chinese Immigrants
Part 3: Social ImpactThe Chinese were the backbone of building the tracks for the Central Pacific and compromised nearly 80% of the workforce They worked in eight hour shifts and only stopped when another person had to put in the black powder, where they lit fuse and would then run to a safe distance to avoid the explosion.
Irish Immigrants and Civil War VeteransOn the Union Pacific Railroad, it mostly consisted of Irish immigrants and Civil War Veterans.The Irish workers and veterans constantly got drunk, went to brothels and gambling dens which brought a lot of vices to the towns that the tracks went through.
Mormons
Part 3 ContinuedThe main reason why the Mormons worked on the railroad was because it would go through the Utah territ ...
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2. Business History
Businesses that changed the World
The Transcontinental Railroad – Indian Railways
• The Transcontinental Railroad was the biggest project in the
19th century – one of those rare moments in history
• Stanford took a whack, and the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans were joined across the continent by rail for the
first time.
• Soon thereafter, Grenville M. Dodge, the chief engineer
of the project on the Union Pacific side, Secretary of
War General John Al Rawlins from Promontory Summit
that, “….today the last rail was laid at this point.; 1,086
miles from Missouri River and 690 miles from
Sacramento.
3. Business History
Businesses that changed the World
The Transcontinental Railroad – Indian Railways
• Later in the day back in Washington, D.C., the Evening Star
editorialized for its readers that “Today, May 10th 1869,
witnesses an event which must pass into history as one the
most important of the century, as well in respect to its
immediate as its future effects upon this country and the
human race.”
• The story of the Transcontinental Railroad begins with
geography and ends in greed and profit. By the mid-19th
century America was a divided country politically: Climate,
the nature of the soil, immigration patterns, economic
interests, slavery and much more had driven a wide wedge
between North and South.
4. Business History
Businesses that changed the World
The Transcontinental Railroad – Indian Railways
• Crossing and closing that larger continental divide would
make a handful of men immensely rich, and riches are what
got them into the project in the first place.
• Visionary nationalists like Asa Whitney had been urging a
transcontinental railroad since the 1840s, almost from the
moment that the great age of the American railroad was
born.
• Egged on by Whitney and others, Congress had been
debating the subject for two decades before the first piece
of transcontinental track was ever laid down.
• By 1862, when a package of federal loans to fund the
Transcontinental Railroad finally cleared Congress, the
choice had been simplified
5. Business History
Businesses that changed the World
The Transcontinental Railroad – Indian Railways
• The Civil War gave a boost to the project in another way.
Transcontinental Railroad was now essential for the national
defense, to assure the easy.
• In 1861, Theodore Judah and Hopkins recruited two other
partners: Leland Stanford, who failed as a lawyer back East
and was in partnership with his brothers, and Charles Crocker,
who had set himself up as a drygood merchant, also in
Sacramento.
• Together, the four men put up $ 24,000 to form the Central
Pacific Railroad corporation and began their ride to fortune.
• Collis Huntington’s fortune eventually would grow to
something on the order of $ 70 million, built not just on trains,
but on timber; coal mines, steamship lines, and Southern
California’s real estate as well.
6. Business History
Businesses that changed the World
The Transcontinental Railroad – Indian Railways
• By the mid-1990s Huntington was able to travel entirely on
track he owned from his mansion on San Francisco’s Nob Hill
to Newport News, Virginia, which he founded as the deep-
water terminus, the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad.
• Another Nob Hill resident, Leland Stanford – his and Hopkins’
mansions sat side by side – would leave more lasting
legacies. Stanford became the chief financial backer of the
California Street Cable Railway in 1870s.
• With the help of Aaron Sargent, a California congressman with
long ties to Huntington, Judah was appointed secretary of the
Senate Committee that was considering the Railroad Act.
• On July 1, 1862, President Lincoln signed the act, designating
the Transcontinental Railroad east from Sacramento and the
Union Pacific to start building west from Omaha.
7. Business History
Businesses that changed the World
The Transcontinental Railroad – Indian Railways
• Durant’s style of management, it is said, consisted largely of
issuing a constant barrage of directives, most of them
insulting, and often demanding that something be done
immediately.
• Having secured the right to lay the rail, Durant set up Credit
Mobilier – he borrowed the better part of the name from a
French Corporation – as an independent construction
company and then subcontracted the entire job out to his
creation.
• More than 15 months elapsed after Abraham Lincoln signed
the Railroad Act before the Central Pacific laid its first section
of rail – surveying had to be completed, crews and managers
brought on board, and the rail secured and brought in place.
8. Business History
Businesses that changed the World
The Transcontinental Railroad – Indian Railways
• The Central Pacific turned to China, ultimately importing some
12000 workers from Canton province. The men – more than
half were, in fact, teenagers – earned # 30 a month laying rail.
For much of the time, they camped alongside the track as they
went, no easy chore in the dead of winter.
• Working out from the western edge of the settled nation, the
Union Pacific had a larger labor pool to draw from.
• By 1866, the two railroads collectively were the biggest
employers in the U.S., with 20000 men on their payrolls.
• By mid-1868, the Union Pacific had crossed the Rockies and
was racing across Wyoming. At 8,242 ft. it would be the
highest elevation the company conquered in the building of
the Transcontinental Railroad.
9. Business History
Businesses that changed the World
The Transcontinental Railroad – Indian Railways
• Not long after, Union Pacific took the railroad across the Dale
Creek with a 700-foot-long bridge built of wood, 126 ft. above the
stream bed, one of the great engineering feats of the century and
done almost on the fly.
• On April 10, 1869, the government finally set a meeting point for
the two companies (Union Pacific and Central Pacific): a desolate
spot in the Utah mountains called Promontory Summit, six miles
west of Ogden.
• May 10, 1869 – a month after the meeting point had been set –
broke clear in Promontory Summit, and cold enough that the one
watery street in town was frozen solid. Leland Staford and Mark
Hopkins were there to represent the Central Pacific. Thomas
Durant was there for the Union Pacific side.
• Durant missed on his first swing, much to the amusement of the
Chinese and Irish laborers who had brought the track to this final
10. Business History
Businesses that changed the World
The Transcontinental Railroad – Indian Railways
• Other dignitaries on both sides followed with their swings, and
then the chief engineers finished the job.
• As they did so, two locomotives, one representing each of the
railroad companies, moved cautiously forward and touched
cowcatchers (triangular frame) to commemorate the movement.
• Congress had been in the thick of the scandal : Credit Mobilier
stock had papered the place. To purge themselves, lawmakers
scheduled a series of hearings meant, in theory to bring the
culpable among their own numbers to justice.
• Schuylr Colfax, who had been Speaker of the House while the
railroad was being built and who had gone on to become Grant’s
vice president, fared poorly in the testimony, and two
congressmen were censured, including Oakes Ames, who had
been at the forefront of offering his colleagues steeply discounted
shared in Credit Mobilier.
11. Business History
Businesses that changed the World
The Transcontinental Railroad – Indian Railways
• Doc Durant, who had been in one the creation of Credit Mobilier of
America, escaped the legal consequences, but history caught up
with him all the same.
• Wiped out by the succession of bank failures that launched the
panic of 1873, Durant tried to bounce back with an ultimately
unsuccessful scheme to develop the iron and timber resources of
the Adirondacks. He died there.
• Great acts are the fruit of great vision, not necessarily of great or
moral people, but whatever America got cheated out by the men
who built the Transcontinental Railroad, she got back a thousand
times over.
• Transportation was, of course, changed forever. The day of the
final spike was driven into the railroad in Promontory Summit,
Wells Fargo, taking advantage of the almost completed track, had
promised in a New York Times ad: “Seven days travel from the
Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean,” with only a single day’s
12. Business History
Businesses that changed the World
The Transcontinental Railroad – Indian Railways
• In the 18 years between the passage of the Railroad Act of 1862
and the U.S. Census of 1880, California’s population grew 1285 to
865,000.
• Nebraska’s population grew more than 3-fold between 1860 and
1870; Nevada’s grew sixfold during the same time.
• Colorado had a bare 40,000 residents in 1870; by 1880 it had
nearly 200,000.
• Utah, nearly doubled in population in the 11 years after the two
railroads were finally joined there.
• It wasn’t just population that grew tough, Rail begat rail, as the
spider web of tracks that had characterized the eastern half of the
nation before the Civil War came to characterize the nation as a
whole.
• In 1869, a little more than 4000 miles of track were laid down
across the country; three years later, by 1872, track was being laid
13. Business History
Businesses that changed the World
The Transcontinental Railroad – Indian Railways
• In all, railroads operated some 53000 miles of track in 1870; a
decade later, they were running on more than 93000 miles of track.
• The people tilled the new land and put up fences and mined the
rich mountain mineral deposits, and the trains carried their grains
and livestock and ore back East, where exports could be shipped
overseas to the Old World that had lent much of the money to build
the Transcontinental Railroad.
• And it wasn’t just trains and rail and commerce that expanded. It
was attitude also. America had always been a place that promised
wide open spaces. Now the wide open spaces were closer and
easier to get to than they had ever been.
• In Collis Huntington, Mark Hopkins, Leland Stanford, Charles
Crocker, and Thomas Durant – the men who had conquered the
continent – there was also the promise that a man could go as far
as his ambition would carry him, if only he was ruthless enough.