| He built Canada's second transcontinental railroad to strengthen the ties that bind us together. |
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| The following year, Congress authorized construction of the transcontinental railroad. |
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| The city of Evanston was one stop of the first transcontinental railroad line. |
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| Our current innovation system is the 21st-century equivalent of Canada's railways just before the great transcontinental railroad. |
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| The construction of a transcontinental railroad and the appearance of the mass-produced and accessible Kodak camera created new possibilities. |
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| He harked back to sputnik, the Apollo project and the transcontinental railroad. |
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| On this day, 125 years ago, the last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway was driven into the ground at Craigellachie, British Columbia, completing this country's first transcontinental railroad. |
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| The same can-do spirit that built the transcontinental railroad and designed the computer chip managed to slap together a barter system that remains the envy of the organized world! |
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| Prime Minister Stephen Harper today issued the following statement marking the 125th anniversary of the completion of Canada's first transcontinental railroad. |
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| But a transcontinental railroad was still needed. |
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| Politicians also determined that a transcontinental railroad would help to bring settlers to the west, and to fortify the western and southern boundaries of the Dominion. |
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| Developing a Canadian health infostructure can be compared to building a transcontinental railroad or highway, but this time it is our health care system in the knowledge society and digital world of the 21st century. |
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| Several thousand came from the coastal areas of the United States where they helped build the American transcontinental railroad, but the majority arrived directly from southern China. |
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| Between 1881 and 1885, thousands of Chinese men came to Canada to work as labourers on the construction of the western section of the transcontinental railroad. |
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| The transcontinental railroad line was the last major construction made in American before the introduction of good explosives, successful earthmoving machinery and modern techniques of construction. |
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| The discovery of the railroad stations along the tracks gave me the opportunity to meet all the different involved or not involved actors in the preservation of the transcontinental railroad line. |
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| Mining booms and the construction of the first transcontinental railroad initially brought economic growth, and the city was nicknamed the Crossroads of the West. |
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| The 19th and 20th centuries witnessed the American building of a nation and the creation of a new frontier around the transcontinental railroad, road trail, and wagons. |
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| Today, this fellowship performed a survey on the different railroad stations and railroad complexes that were discovered along the first transcontinental railroad line. |
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| During his business discussions, Hays had meetings with the White Star Line, about carrying travelers from Europe and from the Orient more rapidly using the ships of the White Star Line and his transcontinental railroad. |
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| The most remarkable fact about the transcontinental Railroad was how well Americans understood its purpose, and its benefits. |
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| Then there was that amazing by-product of the Civil War, the transcontinental Railroad. |
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| The Pacific Railway Acts provided the development of the First Transcontinental Railroad. |
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| The First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States was built in the 1860s, linking the railroad network of the eastern US with California on the Pacific coast. |
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| Between the 1849 and 1869 when the First Transcontinental Railroad was completed across the United States about 800,000 travelers had used the Panama route. |
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