The story has been overshadowed by the “reconstruction” of the Southern states following the War Between the States. Encuentra fotos de stock de Golden Railroad Spike e imágenes editoriales de noticias en Getty Images. The Railroad Nail Spike Replica Paperweight will make a great gift for your. Numerous people and cultures came together to build the first transcontinental railroad. The completion of the railroad lines generated tremendous celebration, enthusiasm, and repercussions for financial malfeasance, the last of which would characterize the legacy of the Grant administration, soon to be reelected for a second term.
Few engineering projects in American history were ever completed with more scams, political corruption and payoffs connected to the project, or killed more workers, than the laying of the track for the trans-continental railroad.
However, after the completion of the 1,776-mile road, a trip cost between $65.00 and $136.00, and a week or so from New York to San Francisco. Golden Spike National Historic Site, national historic site at Promontory in Box Elder County, northern Utah, U.S., near the Great Salt Lake, commemorating the completion in 6 1/2 years of the first transcontinental railroad (1,800 mi 2,900 km of hand-built track) in the country. 150 years after the completion of the tracks, that’s finally changing. Prior to the transcontinental railroad, the cost of travelling from Missouri to California cost about $1,000 and took from four to six months. Summer 2019: Golden Spike Redux Back to top The role that Chinese immigrants played in building the Transcontinental Railroad has long been buried. “For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.” -I Timothy 6:10” Leland Stanford Drives the Golden Spike,Įw engineering projects in American history had such immediate far-reaching effects.
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