Transcontinental Railroad

By oliviasilva06

  • Donner Pass

    The day Theodore Judah figures out the ideal location for the Pacific Railroad to run through the Sierra Nevada.

  • Investors

    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.

  • Plans

    Judah returns to Washington with maps for the Central Pacific Railroad.

  • Bill passes

    Congress passes and Lincoln signs the railroad bill. The bill granted 6400 acres of land and $48000 and government bonds per mile bill

  • Tension

    Tensions build among the investors, Judah sails east to look for new investors.

  • Start

    The Central Pacific spikes its first rails to ties.

  • Death

    Judah dies in New York City.

  • Omaha

    Union Pacific breaks down in Omaha.

  • Revised Bill

    Congress passes a revised Pacific Railroad Bill and doubles the land grants

  • Chinese immigrates

    Central Pacific Railroad start using Chinese immigrates to help the Irish immigranrs build the railroad

  • Union Pacific started

    The first rails of the Union Pacific lines are spiked in Omaha

  • Sierra Nevada

    Central Pacific crews hand drill 12 tunnels through the Sierra Nevada.

  • Attacks

    The Union Pacific worker suffered attacks by Native Americans the Sioux, Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes.

  • 100 miles

    Union Pacific hit the 100 mile marker

  • Summit Tunnel

    Central Pacific worker blast through the Summit Tunnel completely the hard task in the mountains.

  • Sunrise and Sunset

    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.

  • Golden Spike

    The Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroad join together in Promontory Point, Utah with the ceremonial drving of the "Golden Spike".