Railroad Expansion

Two rail companies started on each side of the country and they built toward each other. One started in Sacramento, CA and the other started in Omaha, NE. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/images/transcontinental-railroad-map-1.jpg

Ran from San Jose, CA, to Sacramento, CA to connect the cities with the Transcontinental Railroad

Los Angeless, CA, to New Orleans, LA. http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/media/uploads/rails_tales_sprr.jpg

Finished in 1883. It stretched from Lake Superior to Portland, OR. http://www.memoriallibrary.com/Trans/RRGaz/NP/northernpacific.jpg

Stretched from Atchinson, KS, to Los Angeles, CA. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/BNSF_Map.png

It ran from St. Paul, MN, to Seattle, WA. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/1897_Poor's_Great_Northern_Railway.jpg