The Great 

Railroad Race

 The Transcontinental Railroad

The Civil War has begun.  The southern Senators are no longer in the U.S. Congress.  The northern Senators vote for a northern route.  They decide to start the railroad at Omaha, Nebraska and end in Sacramento, California.


Omaha-Sacramento Map
Transcontinental Railroad Map
Courtesy Library of Congress.
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