East meets West: Golden Spike National Historic Site in Utah tells the story of America's first transcontinental railroad, which transformed a nation by linking its coasts. (Historic Highlights).

National Parks | July 1, 2003| | Copyright

Today, travelers can get on a plane and fly from New York to San Francisco in about six hours. That makes it hard to appreciate the historical significance of the first transcontinental railroad. Indeed, mid-19th century Americans would have scoffed at the notion of coast-to-coast travel. To go "out there," to the vast, unknown West, was to most a pipe dream. Little did they know that an ambitious effort by two companies would, within two decades, link the Atlantic to the Pacific and transform a nation.

Once America's first railroads started running in the 1830s, ...

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