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may 10, 1869 - First Transcontinental Railroad

Description:

Continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Omaha, Nebraska/Council Bluffs, Iowa with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay

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may 10, 1869
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~ 157 years ago