Reply to "First Transcontinental Railroad"

smd4 posted:

Rusty Traque posted:

Hot Water posted:

Bill N posted:

I thought the first transcontinental railroad was in Panama.

What year would THAT have been built?

First train, 1855.

Rusty

Last time I checked, Panama was not considered a continent. That railroad only crossed an isthmus.

Transcontinental sounds better that transithmusinanl...

(The sound you hear is Noah Webster spinning in his grave...)

Rusty