In the United States, Thomas Leiper created the earliest type of this structure, about which Louis H. Haney wrote a Congressional History.
In the United States, Thomas Leiper created the earliest type of this structure, about which Louis H. Haney wrote a Congressional History. Asa Whitney campaigned unsuccessfully for one of these structures to be started in Prairie du Chien. John Stevens is known as the father of these structures in America. In 1853, Jefferson Davis set up surveys in anticipation of building one of these structures. Theodore Judah organized Charles Crocker, Collis Huntington, Mark Hopkins, and another man into building part of one of these structures. That type of this structure had its Golden Spike driven in by Leland Stanford in Promontory, Utah. For 10 points, name these structures that included the Union Pacific and Central Pacific, which were joined together in 1869 to form the first transcontinental one.
In the United States, Thomas Leiper created the earliest type of this structure, about which Louis H. Haney wrote a Congressional History.
railroads [or railways; or train tracks; or tramways]