America’s Transcontinental Railroads

America’s Transcontinental Railroads

Available on Prime Video, The Great Courses Signature Collection
S1 E6: Visualize the vast engineering project that linked the two coasts of the United States by rail. Learn how two companies built the first completed line, followed by other transcontinental routes, driving settlement and agricultural output across the United States. Assess the financial realities and abuses of these railroads, and the serious economic and ecological problems they provoked.