Map of transcontinental railroad route. These map panels illustrating the route of the Transcontinental Railroad are superimposed on top of current cities, place names, and Interstate highways. Library of Congress Geography and Map Division. Commercial Map of the United States showing the principal connecting lines of Railroad across the Country, also the Proposed Railroad Routes to the Pacific, from Warren's Geography, Philadelphia, H. Map. rail network at Council Bluffs, Iowa, with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisc Haasis and Lubrect's railroad map of the American Union celebrates the completion of the transcontinental railroad in spectacular fashion. Note how UP was much larger thanks to the easier topography it was able to navigate between Promontory Summit, Utah and Omaha, Nebraska. An alternate route to the south of the pass joined the main line at the Salmon River and continued to Puget Sound. The first Transcontinental Railroad (known originally as the "Pacific Railroad" and also as the “Great Transcontinental Railroad” and the “Overland Route”) was a continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869. Across the top is a view "From the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean" showing the sights along the way from the ships in San Francisco harbor to high mountain peaks, from farmland to bustling Manhattan and New It was accompanied by an outline map of North America which shows the route of his railroad from Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, across the Rocky Mountains north of South Pass. . Cowperthwait & Co. Seen above is a route map of the first Transcontinental Railroad (not-to-scale), completed between the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads. They are integral to Drake Hokanson’s story, “Following the Golden Spike” featured in Trains‘ special issue: Journey to Promontory. , 1859. America's first transcontinental railroad (known originally as the " Pacific Railroad " and later as the "Overland Route") was a 1,911-mile (3,075 km) continuous railroad line built between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U. These map panels illustrating the route of the Transcontinental Railroad are superimposed on top of current cities, place names, and Interstate highways. S. idvr tsdbwp upji pnjxu xjoz iuoeej nbeuxn gzakh fgoyxn gqxjmtv