The Transcontinental Railroad By Luke J.

The Transcontinental Railroad was crazy. People dying mountains exploding. But once they were done they could travel across america in 7 DAYS. Do you want to know to know how long it took without the railroad it took near 2 months walking could kill someone from stress. But now we have cars that can get us across from places really fast. Just think about it if you want to learn more about this mayhem read about the facts on The transcontinental Railroad.

Ideas

You might be thinking “well who built the railroad?’’ so people built the railroad but Theodore Judah and Asa whitney both thought of it. They both knew it would make population grow insanely large so. Asa whitney was the one who we should be focusing on because she the only one that could give enough reasons on why they needed the railroad. She was also the only one who could get them to start building. But Theodore Judah did come up with it first so Theodore Judah VS Asa Whitney but I guess Asa whitney wins.

Building the railroad

The railroad was tough work building people were dying from fevers and from stress the cold storms would kill them. And the chinese (which was most of the people making it) got paid very little money about one pound in today's money that is only about one dollar. They also had to blow up the mountain to build more track people would eat but they would go about 10 miles of trak a day that was pretty hard for the workers. People could ride the railroad but tickets were very expensive so not very many people rode the railroad. And the railroad could cary very many people so it was not that full during the time only rich rode the railroad some times .

Celebration

They would have a celebration where they finally met and people were meeting with each other and there was a gold nail that the put into the ground and there was a plaque that said last tie laid. Of course they took out the gold spike thats a lot of cash but why couldn't they pay everyone the same amount of money well because they got that spike from someone so that's why. They would also meat the chinese immigrants some of the workers were dead so they weren't meeting everyone. They also had a celebration when they set the train on the tracks people from all sorts of places were cheering.




They had a big celebration when the two railroads met it is also were they nailed the gold nail into the ground.


Conclusion

so if ever want to actually see the Transcontinental Railroad go to primary point where there is a museum to learn more about it. You can also get more of this information from books all about the Transcontinental Railroad at the museum they even have a golden spike at the museum which must have been pretty hard to get and find it was probably somewhere by the railroad.

This is where the railroad went and started it also shows what they had to go through on the transcontinental railroad.