While No One Railroad Can Completely Duplicate

The Public Conviction That A Railroad Linking The West And The East Was An Absolute Necessity Became So Pronounced After The Gold Discoveries Of '49 That Congress Passed An Act In 1853 Providing For A Survey Of Several Lines From The Mississippi To The Pacific.

The Financial History Of The Baltimore And Ohio Since The Close Of The Nineteenth Century Is Interesting Chiefly In Connection With Changes In The Control Of The Property

The Close Relationship Between Railroad Expansion And The Genera Development And Prosperity Of The Country Is Nowhere Brought More Distinctly Into Relief Than In Connection With The Construction Of The Pacific Railroads.

The United States As We Know It Today Is Largely The Result Of Mechanical Inventions, And In Particular Of Agricultural Machinery And The Railroad. One Transformed Millions Of Acres Of Uncultivated Land Into Fertile Farms, While The Other Furnished The Transportation Which Carried The Crops To Distant Markets.

As The Contest Proceeded, Public Interest Increased And The Entire Country Watched To See Which Company Would Win The Big Government Subsidies Through The Mountains.