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Season 2 Episode 2: The Transcontinental Rail...
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Due to the difficulty of crossing the Sierra Nevada Mountains, most in Congress originally believed that the Central Pacific would be lucky to meet the Union Pacific at the Eastern California border.
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Union Pacific paid Buffalo Bill Cody $500 a month to provide a daily supply of buffalo meat for their workers. It took 12 buffalo per day to feed 1,200 men.
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Railroads receiving land grants had to haul government cargo at reduced rates. When this agreement ended in 1946, the railroads had repaid an estimated ten times the values of the land.
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exploring history, for geeks, modern design, travel tales, visually striking