Railroads & Locomotives History Year-by-year, a timeline of completing the Transcontinental Railroad

Year-by-year, a timeline of completing the Transcontinental Railroad

By | March 19, 2019

Get the basics for what happened and when before, during, and after the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad

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