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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

HeartlandProgressive

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4. Building a railroad thru western mountains was cutting edge

Reply to zipplewrath (Reply #1)

Fri Aug 16, 2019, 12:38 PM

Aug 2019

Getting thru the Sierra Nevada and Rocky Mountains was a huge engineering challenge for the time. Some of the wooden trestle bridges they built have to be seen to be believed.

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Building the Transcontinental Railroad, the moonshot of the 19th century [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2019 OP

It was monumental zipplewrath Jun 2019 #1

they ran roughshod over the US treasury too cojoel Jun 2019 #2

Building a railroad thru western mountains was cutting edge HeartlandProgressive Aug 2019 #4

The 2011/2014 tv series Hell On Wheels was about building that railway dixiegrrrrl Jun 2019 #3