What do u know about the Transcontinental Railroad?

Question

I am doing a project on it

Answer 1

All found easily by a simple google.

But, keep in mind there were three transcontinental railroads across North America.

The First Transcontinental Railroad was built out of Sacramento, eastward, as the Central Pacific.

Building westward out of Omaha Nebraska was the Union Pacific.

It got government funding under President Lincoln by way of the "Pacific Railway Act."

There was also a northern route built by the Great Northern.

There is also a transcontinental route in Canada, which I'd like to ride some day.

Answer 2

And keep in mind, Hoghead and others, there never was a SINGLE TRULY transcontinental railroad in the U.S. There still isn't.
The so-called "transcontinental" completed in 1869 was, as Hoghead stated, the combined Union Pacific/Central Pacifc route (now UP) which ran from Omaha to Sacramento.

Besides this route, there were also these, from north to south:

Great Northern (now part of Burlington Northern Santa Fe [BNSF])
Northern Pacific (also now in BNSF)
Milwaukee Road (now gone and torn up)
Union Pacifc (the "original" transcon)
Burlington / Denver and Rio Grande / Western Pacific (a group of roads originally under control of one owner. Now broken up. Burlington now part of Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Rio Grande and Western Pacific now part of Union Pacific)
Santa Fe (now Burlington Northern Santa Fe)
Southern Pacific (Now part of Union Pacific)

Canada has two and they are true transcontinentals:
The first, Canadian Pacific, was completed in 1885.
The other, Canadian National, was formed by merger of several separate railways and taken over by the Canadian government.

Answer 3

it goes through my town