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Brotherhood of locamotive engineers became the first successful railroad labor organization
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This timeline will cover the important occurances during the raliroad expansion into the western territories of the United States.
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The Civil War caused alot of traffic in northern railroads, and also caused the destruction of many railroads in the south. So a newer appreciation towards railroads was founded.
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Union Pacific railroad meets Central Pacific railroad
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Gold was struck in the sacred black hills causing miners and their families to move westward by railroad.
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At this point in time the Pacific railroad carries $50 million dollars worth of cargo annually. It has served as the main artery for 200 million acres of settlement between the Mississippi and the Pacific. A trip between San Francisco and New York, which once might have occupied six grueling months, now takes a few days.
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Chinese laborers played a large role in infistructure in California, Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act banning further immigration of Chinese laborers into the United States for 10 years. Congress extended this Act in 1892, and again indefinitely in 1904.
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"The day of two noons" the day in which most cities adopt standard railway time.
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Congress forbids unathorized fencing of western public lands.
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Casement crews add 60 miles of track to bring the Union Pacific line to the 100 mile mark.
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First federal regulation of railways
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Indian territory in Oklahoma is open to homesteaders causing over 50,000 home steaders to travel west by railroad.
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GE installs first mainline railroad electrification in America
