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The day Theodore Judah figures out the ideal location for the Pacific Railroad to run through the Sierra Nevada.
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Collis P. Huntington meet with Judah and agreed to invest his railroad project. He brought four other investor Mark Hopkins, James Bailey, Charles Crocker, and Leland Stanford.
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Judah returns to Washington with maps for the Central Pacific Railroad.
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Congress passes and Lincoln signs the railroad bill. The bill granted 6400 acres of land and $48000 and government bonds per mile bill
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Tensions build among the investors, Judah sails east to look for new investors.
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The Central Pacific spikes its first rails to ties.
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Judah dies in New York City.
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Union Pacific breaks down in Omaha.
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Congress passes a revised Pacific Railroad Bill and doubles the land grants
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Central Pacific Railroad start using Chinese immigrates to help the Irish immigranrs build the railroad
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The first rails of the Union Pacific lines are spiked in Omaha
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Central Pacific crews hand drill 12 tunnels through the Sierra Nevada.
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The Union Pacific worker suffered attacks by Native Americans the Sioux, Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes.
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Union Pacific hit the 100 mile marker
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Central Pacific worker blast through the Summit Tunnel completely the hard task in the mountains.
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Charles Crocker wanted to show the Union Pacific and the world one more thing. Central Pacific crew lay an unheard of 10 miles of rail between sunrise and sunset.
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The Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroad join together in Promontory Point, Utah with the ceremonial drving of the "Golden Spike".