Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69 - Stephen E. Ambrose
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Nothing Like It in the World gives the account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage. It is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad—the investors who risked their businesses and money; the enlightened politicians who understood its importance; the engineers and surveyors who risked, and sometimes lost, their lives; and the Irish and Chinese immigrants, the defeated Confederate soldiers, and the other laborers who did the backbreaking and dangerous work on the tracks.
The U.S. government pitted two companies—the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads—against each other in a race for funding, encouraging speed over caution. Locomotives, rails, and spikes were shipped from the East through Panama or around South America to the West or lugged across the country to the Plains. In Ambrose’s hands, this enterprise, with its huge expenditure of brainpower, muscle, and sweat, comes vibrantly to life.
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This post has 5 comments with rating of 5/5
November 15th, 2020
Nothing like it in the world….for a whole 16 years.
‘November 07, 1885
Canada’s transcontinental railway completed’
“Despite the logistical difficulties posed by areas such as the muskeg (bogs) region of northwestern Ontario and the high rugged mountains of British Columbia, the railway was completed six years ahead of schedule.”
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/canadas-transcontinental-railway-completed
November 15th, 2020
“We are the navvies who work upon the railroad, swinging our hammers in the bright blazing sun.”
November 15th, 2020
@BillEBob: I see you’re a Gordon Lightfoot fan as well :)
November 17th, 2020
Apnea - No one cares who came in second place. Eh.
November 26th, 2020
Apnea can’t Canada and the US both be great?
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