A BLOG ABOUT ONE OF THE GREATEST FEATS EVER ACCOMPLISHED IN AMERICAN HISTORY.

This blog was founded in May 2011

Gallery

Transcontinental Railroad route



Laborers working on the railroad


Chinese laborers posing for the camera

Donner Summit

The "Jupiter" chugging through the mountains

Building tracks in the Sierra Nevada Mountains
Surveyors look for a route to lay down tracks
Chinese workers using shovels to level the ground for laying tracks

Promontory Summit, Utah