Timeline of the Transcontinental Railroad

Theodore Judah passes away from Yellow Fever

The Union Pacific Railroad company reaches their first 1,000-mile mark

Congress picks Promontory Summit, Utah to be the location where both the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroad companies would meet

Both the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroad Companies meet at Promontory Summit, Utah and complete the First U.S. Transcontinental Railroad

Gold was found in California

The Gold Rush

Some time in the late 1850's Theodore Judah comes up with an idea to create the First U.S. Transcontinental Railroad

Theodore Judah founds the Central Pacific Railroad Company

The Union Pacific Railroad Company helps the Central Pacific Railroad Company to complete the First U.S. Transcontinental Railroad

Congress signs the Pacific Railway Act allowing construction of the Transcontinental Railroad to begin

First Day of building the Transcontinental Railroad

The Central Pacific Railroad Company starts construction in California

The Union Pacific Railroad company stars construction in Omaha, Nebraska