US Migration Railroads

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Ceremony celebrating linking of the first transcontinental railroad, Promontory Summit, Utah, 1869.

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Some American settlers moved to new homes by railroad:

**Transcontinental Railroads of North America**
Transcon-tinental Service Started	Railroad	Normal Route	Last Spike at
1869	Union Pacific + Central Pacific	Omaha, NE - Sacramento, CA	Promontory Summit, UT
1882	Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe + Southern Pacific	Chicago, IL - Los Angeles, CA	Deming, NM
1883	Southern Pacific	New Orleans, LA - Sacramento, CA	Pecos River, TX
1883	Northern Pacific	Duluth, MN - Seattle, WA	Gold Creek, MT
1885	Atlantic & Pacific	Albuquerque, NM - Los Angeles, CA
1885	Canadian Pacific	Halifax, NS - Vancouver, BC	Craigellachie, BC
1893	Great Northern	Chicago, IL - Seattle, WA	Scenic, WA
1925	Union Pacific (via Boise, ID)	Granger, WY - Portland, OR

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