Journey Through Time - The Wild West and the Transcontinental Railroad (Part 1 of 4).

BUILDING OF THE WILD WEST’S TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD SYSTEM These 38 images generated by AI software give a glimpse back in time during the Western Era’s building of their railroad system across America. According to Wikipedia: America’s first transcontinental railroad (known originally as the “Pacific Railroad“ and later as the “Overland Route“) was a 1,911-mile (3,075 km) continuous railroad line built between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Council Bluffs, Iowa, with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay. The rail line was built by three private companies over public lands provided by extensive U.S. land grants. The building was financed by both state and U.S. government subsidy bonds, as well as by company-issued mortgage bonds. The Western Pacific Railroad Company built 132 miles (212 km) of track from the road’s western terminus at Alameda/Oakland to Sacramento, California. The