With years of undignified blood spilled on its soil, New Mexico was desperately craving a change in events; something that would assist its citizens positively, and thus, in the 1960s, came a redeeming event, the introduction of the Railroad to the United States. The Railroad, otherwise known as the First Transcontinential Railroad, was all part of an elaborate competition between two companies to connect the coastlines. An incredible feat that appropriated nearly ten years to construct, it was a technological revelation that allowed the effortless fleeting of goods and people across the country. The Railroad’s construction began during the horror that was the Civil War and promptly ended in 1869 at the end of it, as instructed by Abraham Lincoln
