On this day in 1869 the country got it's first taste of transportation comfort and modernization. All of this was wrapped up in the lives of two eastern statesmen who sought better means of travel for all in the 1830's. Just one year into the Civil War Congress granted the act of creating a transcontinental railroad through the United States. The people who built the train and its tracks suffered from heat, Indian attacks, and other difficulties as the road was being put together. By 1869 nearly 2,000 miles of track had been laid. What lay head for America would be a time of not just modernization but a huge economic boom that would echo up till today with cars. Make no mistake though the train is still popular and still in use some hundred years later. ALL ABOARD! For this and other facts about this day in history please go to http://www.history.com/, http://www.foxnews.com/, or http://www.cnn.com/.
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