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Transcontinental Railroad

Transcontinental Railroad. Congress passed Railroad Act of 1862 1863 Central Pacific starts in Sacramento,CA 1863- Union Pacific starts near Omaha,NE. Problems. CP- getting supplies from the East WHY? UP-getting ties WHY?. Equipment. Each mile required 100 tons of rail 2500 ties

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Transcontinental Railroad

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  1. Transcontinental Railroad • Congress passed Railroad Act of 1862 • 1863 Central Pacific starts in Sacramento,CA • 1863- Union Pacific starts near Omaha,NE

  2. Problems • CP- getting supplies from the East • WHY? • UP-getting ties • WHY?

  3. Equipment • Each mile required • 100 tons of rail • 2500 ties • 2-3 tons of spikes and fish plates • Also need wheel barrows,horse drawn scrapers,2 wheel dump carts, shovels,axes,crowbars,blasting powder, and more

  4. How Track Was Laid • Survey crews worked ahead • Graders graded 100 miles at a time • Bridge and trestle crews worked 5-20 miles ahead • Track layers grabbed rails and ties from horse drawn carts • Pounders drove spikes

  5. General Grenville Dodge Union Pacific

  6. The Big FourHuntington, Hopkins, Stanford, Crocker

  7. Officers of the Central Pacific

  8. West- Central PacificEast- Union Pacific

  9. Hired by the Central Pacific 9/10 were Chinese Avg. Height-4’10” Avg. Weight-120lbs. Dug tunnels through Mts. Use pick,shovel, black powder Avg.8”/day 24hrs./7days winters 40’ snow dug tunnels through snow to get to tunnels in Mts. Chinese Workers

  10. Chinese workers • All this hard work for: • $20/week and supply own food • later strike to get $35/week and not to be whipped • suffered prejudice because were different • clean,saved $,not drink away, • and different customs

  11. Chinese Workers for the Central Pacific

  12. Chinese Laborer Camp

  13. China Wall Road Marker

  14. China Wall near Truckee,CA

  15. China Wall and Snow Shed near Truckee,CA

  16. Workers laying rails

  17. Laying Rails in the Desert

  18. The Last Rail is Laid

  19. Completion-May 10,1869Promontory Point, Utah

  20. Railroad Mural Lincoln, NE

  21. Railroad Mural Lincoln, NE

  22. Union Pacific Engine near Scott’s Bluff NE

  23. Union Pacific Heading East near Scott’s Bluff, NE

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