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Theodore Judah and the Donner Pass
Theodore Judah, railroad engineer, comes to the Donner Pass and constructs a line for the ideal Railroad track that goes through the Sierra Nevada Mountains. -
The Central Pacific Railroad
The Central Pacific Railroad began laying its first tracks in October of 1860. -
Board of Directors of the Central Pacific Railroad Company
Theodore Judah met people to convince them to join his project. Judah, Collis P. Huntington, Mark Hopkins, James Bailey, Charles Crocker, and Leland Stanford come together as the first Board of Directors of the Central Pacific Railroad Company to help Judah's dream of the Railroad become reality. -
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Pacific Railroad Act. It endorses the Central Pacific to begin in Sacramento, California and move east, while the Union Pacific Company builds west from the Missouri River. It offers $48,000 for every mile of track built. -
Union Pacific Railroad Company
In Omaha, Nebraska, the Union Pacific Railroad becomes official even though it does not make progress until later in time. -
Union Pacific and its First Track
The Union Pacific Railroad Company lays its first track in 1865, 2 years after it broke ground to start in 1863. -
Jack Casement
General Jack Casement is hired as a boss of construction for the Union Pacific by Doc Durant. He creates mass organization in the midst of the constructional process. -
100 Mile Mark
The Union Pacific finally reaches the 100 mile mark after 60 miles are added by crew in just one month. -
Hell on Wheels
Construction is stopped for the Union Pacific in the winter of 1866 in North Platte, Nebraska. This halt lead to the "Hell on Wheels" towns, which were notoriously violent mobile encampments of dance halls, saloons, and gambling dens. -
Summit Tunnel
The hardest of the tracks to lay, which are in the mountainous areas, are finshed by the Central Pacific workers in the Summit Tunnel. -
Golden Spike
Leland Stanford hammered a golden spike in the ground which marked the linking together of the two railroads, the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific, in Promontory, Utah. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress to prohibit immigration of anymore Chinese to the United States, who were over the majority of the workers for the Transcontinental Railroad.
