![]() ![]() To win them, each side turned hundreds of their train workers into private armies backed by local militia and paid mercenaries like Dodge City’s Bat Masterson. But they often led through narrow mountain passes or up treacherous canyons with room for only a single set of tracks. Starting with the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, surviving the countrys multiple economic crises, supporting Americas military men. Their choices brought life to such out-of-the-way places as San Diego, Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Denver, and to Los Angeles most of all: The Santa Fe turned a sleepy backwater of 30,000 into a booming metropolis of 150,000 in three years-the most explosive growth of any city in the history of the United States.īy then, the two men behind the Rio Grande and the Santa Fe had fought all across the west to lay claim to the routes that would secure the most profitable territory and the richest silver mines. The project which took some 21,000 workers and 1,775 miles of track, cost a total of 60 million. What used to take months by boat or horse drawn wagon could be done in a week from New York to San Francisco. The United States manufactured 30 of the worlds goods by the 1900. The First Transcontinental Railroad completely transformed the nation in 1869 when the Union and Central Pacific railroads joined together. economy by transporting products and people leading into the economic growth. ![]() The railroad companies were governments on wheels: they set the course, chose the route, and built up cities and towns along their tracks. How did the transcontinental railroad affect the US economy In the end the Transcontinental Railroad impacted the U.S. The First Transcontinental Railroad, completed May 10, 1869. ![]() Today’s guest, John Sedwick, author of FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA: The Untold Story of the Railroad War that Made the West, is here to tell that story in detail. This Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, NBC News is highlighting efforts by Asian. Journal of American History, Volume 52, Issue 3, December 1965, Pages 637638. In 1869, the first transcontinental railroad had made history by linking East and West, but, relying heavily on federal grants, it left an opening for two brash new railroad men, the Civil War hero behind the Rio Grande and the corporate chieftain of the Santa Fe, to build the first transcontinental to make money by creating a railroad empire across the Southwest to the sea. Moguls and Iron Men: The Story of the First Transcontinental Railroad. It is remarkable now to imagine, but during the 1870s, the American West, for all its cloud-topped peaks and endless coastline, might have been barren tundra as far as most Americans knew. ![]()
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