The road traveled, the road ahead UP at 140.(Union Pacific Railroad Co.)

Railway Age | October 1, 2002| | Copyright

Few events in American industrial history have so stirred the public imagination as the creation of a "transcontinental railroad" by a stroke of President Abraham Lincoln's pen seven score years ago. No single event did more to fulfill America's "manifest destiny" of westward expansion.

The historic public/private partnership set in motion on July 1, 1862, produced, seven years later, rail lines joined by a golden spike on a windswept promontory in Utah, and known today as the Union Pacific.

Contributing Editor Larry Kaufman in the adjoining essay sketches ...

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