Class I railroad

He reads the note while he grabs his uneaten turkey off his plate and feeds it to Grace. At the sight of food Grace sits up. MORRIS I can’t believe you taught Grace new tricks. Sandy looks at Morris. SANDY I wanted to surprise you when you came home from flying for the first time, but your surprise was much bigger. Morris smiles. He grabs a large chunk of turkey off his plate and feeds it to Grace. INT. HALLWAY - DAY Later. Morris walks down the hallway towards the front door. He holds…

The transcontinental railroad was a massive achievement for our country; its many accomplishments included expanding settlement, providing valuable jobs, and spurring immigration. Before the railroad was constructed, settlements were mostly established on the east coast. There were, however, a few settlements out west as a result of the California Gold Rush, but there was nothing in between. Traveling the 2,000 miles to California from the eastern region of the United States took five hard and…

expansion. Those four are: population growth, transportation improvements, money and the slave state/free state. This was the time frame that railroads took boom. The Transcontinental Railway was the biggest railway project. The congress authorized the Pacific Railway Act which funded a railroad from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean. Now the railroad attracted some of the more sleazy financial geniuses. Thomas Durant was one of the more sleazier investors. He got the US government to…

From 1840 to 1860 the total trackage length in the US increase more than nine times. Railroads in the mid 1800s were booming across America, following them was many radical changes. One of the first evident changes was one of independence; train lines diverted traffic from water ways, this in turn made the West in addition to the South more independent from their Northeastern counterparts. Rail lines were important for expansion across the nation, thousands of people used them to move Westward.…

In the first section of this paper I will briefly examine some of the characteristics of what is described as the Gilded Age in America, the period immediately following the Civil War, the phrase being derived from Twain and Dudley’s novel The Gilded Age. One of the landmark achievements of this period, around which much of the novel also revolves, is the completion of the first transcontinental railway network in the year 1869. Predicated upon this, to a large extent, is the process of…

from 1865 to 1900 including; free land for western settlers, having a railroad to connect the east with the west, and the economy, which brought a lot of immigrants over in search of work. Free land was offered to western settlers through an act that passed called The Homestead Act. The settlement of the Western frontier brought people from different racial backgrounds in hopes of free land and to work on the railroad. The railroad would span from the west to the east, linking the two, sparking…

the most important ways it helps change American Life and society was the creation of the Railroads. Capital primarily came from the investments of railroads. Railroads helped change American Life economically and socially. Railroads became the first major economic spending after the civil war. Then there was a rapid expansion of railroads, by 1860 it went from 30,000 miles to 193,000 by 1900. These railroads…

The transcontinental railroad was a very important build in U.S. history that helped smoothly connect the states together, to give people an easier and safer way to travel and ship goods from place to place. The West had very few lines and had none connecting to the east. So when the California Gold Rush hit and they had no good way of getting out to the West people decided it was about time they get one. Sadly there was one big problem. That problem being the unforgiving terrain the line would…

The Santa Fe Trail was an 800 mile Trail from Independence, Missouri to Santa Fe, in New Mexico. The travel along this trail began in 1821 and continued until 1860 where the railroad took over control of the trade; under the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. It traversed what was called the Great American Desert. This was named as such because of the expanse of dry, arid terrain viewed as inhospitable to the nineteenth century contemporaries, and unsuitable for settlement and expansion.…

The Transcontinental Railroad, first built in 1829, had a seemingly simple purpose. It provided jobs for over 200,000 people and allowed easy access to expansion westward. Looking at the construction of the railroad through the lense of ‘Manifest Destiny’, the Transcontinental Railroad was a great enterprise into maximizing profits. The negatives of the railroad however, outweigh the supposedly beneficial factors. The Transcontinental Railroad is detrimental to the American society and causes…