First transcontinental railroad
type: RouteOfTransportation
type: Infrastructure
type: Thing
type: SpatialThing
type: Q728937
type: ArchitecturalStructure
label: Primer ferrocarril transcontinental de Estados Unidos @es
label: أول سكة حديدية ممتدة عبر القارة @ar
label: First Transcontinental Railroad @it
label: Primer ferrocarril transcontinental dels Estats Units @ca
label: Πρώτος διηπειρωτικός σιδηρόδρομος @el
label: Pierwsza Kolej Transkontynentalna @pl
label: 第一條橫貫大陸鐵路 @zh
label: Premier chemin de fer transcontinental @fr
label: Transcontinental Railroad @nl
label: Primeira Ferrovia Transcontinental @pt
label: Transamerikanska järnvägen @sv
label: Первая трансконтинентальная железная дорога США @ru
label: Перша трансконтинентальна залізниця @uk
label: 最初の大陸横断鉄道 @ja
lat: 41.131283
long: -105.39805
point: 41.131281 -105.398045
subject: Category:American frontier
subject: Category:First transcontinental railroad
subject: Category:1860s in California
subject: Category:Rail transportation in Nevada
subject: Category:Rail transportation in Utah
subject: Category:Railway lines in Omaha, Nebraska
subject: Category:Rail transportation in California
subject: Category:Union Pacific Railroad
subject: Category:Railway lines in the United States
subject: Category:History of rail transportation in the United States
subject: Category:Rail lines receiving land grants
subject: Category:Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks
subject: Category:History of United States expansionism
subject: Category:Railway lines opened in 1869
subject: Category:1869 establishments in the United States
subject: Category:Southern Pacific Railroad
open: 1869-05-10
opening date: 1869-05-10
opening year: 1869
image width: 250
linelength mi: 1912
map state: uncollapsed
locale: United States
operator: Central Pacific Railroad
operator: Union Pacific Railroad
end: --09-06
width: 210
owner: Federal government of the United States
route end: Oakland Long Wharf
route end: Alameda Terminal
geometry: POINT(-105.39804840088 41.131282806396)
route start: Council Bluffs, Iowa
other name: Pacific Railroad
float: right
video: --03-05
line length: 3077065.728
box width: 250
description: primer ferrocarril en los Estados Unidos en llegar a la costa del Pacífico desde los estados del este @es
description: vasútvonal az Amerikai Egyesült Államokban @hu
description: rautatie Yhdysvalloissa @fi
description: premier service ferroviaire transcontinental aux États-Unis entre Omaha et Sacramento @fr
description: アメリカ合衆国の鉄道路線 @ja
description: first railroad in the United States to reach the Pacific coast from the eastern states
description: Erste transkontinentale Eisenbahnverbindung in den Vereinigten Staaten zwischen Omaha und Sacramento @de
description: spoorlijn in Verenigde Staten van Amerika @nl
description: خط سكة حديد في الولايات المتحدة @ar
wiki page external link: http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/geology/publications/bul/612/index.htm
wiki page external link: https://www.c-span.org/video/%3F155004-1/empire-express
wiki page external link: http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/history/
wiki page external link: https://www.nps.gov/gosp/index.htm
wiki page external link: http://cprr.org/Museum/index.html
wiki page external link: http://cprr.org/Museum/Riding_the_Rails_Intro.html
wiki page external link: http://www.abandonedrails.com/Original_Transcontinental_Railroad
wiki page external link: https://web.stanford.edu/group/chineserailroad/cgi-bin/website/virtual/
wiki page external link: https://archive.org/details/pacifictourist1881willuoft