Today the Transcontinental Railroad was completed

"JR1" (type35bugatti)
05/10/2016 at 08:42 • Filed to: None

Marking perhaps one of the most significant days ever in transportation history.

DISCUSSION (16)

Ash78, voting early and often > JR1
05/10/2016 at 08:48

And people say Chinese-made products aren't durable!

Scott > JR1
05/10/2016 at 08:57

Sorry Doc Brown, but No... it's been finished for like 147 years, not sure where you have been all this time.

JR1 > Scott
05/10/2016 at 08:58

What you don't realize is I am writing this post from 1869...

Grindintosecond > JR1
05/10/2016 at 09:03

Significant, because Union pacific was so horrible, laws exist today to prevent that level corruption ever again.

FoilyDoily > JR1
05/10/2016 at 09:08

I grew up near Promontory Summit.

JR1 > Grindintosecond
05/10/2016 at 09:23

The brutality of the railroads is pretty bad if you look up the history

Jayhawk Jake > Ash78, voting early and often
05/10/2016 at 09:31

*slow clap*

unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) > JR1
05/10/2016 at 09:43

This is heavy doc.

facw > JR1
05/10/2016 at 09:50

And three decades later, they had completely replaced that section by building the Lucin Cutoff with an incredibly long bridge across the Great Salt Lake.

Kinja'd!!!

It probably should have been obvious that a place called “Promontory Summit” was not going to have train friendly grades. The last of the Promontory Summit track was scrapped during WWII to help the war effort.