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As with all things, someone or some thing has to be “first,” and in Texas the first ... fourth incarnation of the Southern Pacific Railroad, which was the second transcontinental railroad in the ...

As with all things, someone or some thing has to be “first,” and in Texas the first ... fourth incarnation of the Southern Pacific Railroad, which was the second transcontinental railroad in the ...

Library of Congress Since the end of the Civil War, railroad construction in the United States had been booming ... The nation's first transcontinental railroad had been completed in 1869.

There are 23 miles of railroad in the United States. President Millard Fillmore signs the first Railroad Land Grant Act. By encouraging railroad construction in undeveloped territories ...

A County community is kicking off Black History Month by hosting a commemorative walk and paying a "tribute to the past".

“Summit Camp is an exceptional representation of the history of Chinese laborers and their contributions towards construction of the first continental railroad in the United States, the Central ...