Transcontinental Railroad Essay

<Tab/>Have you heard the quote "Life is a journey, not a destination?" Yet when it comes to summer vacations we see it as "Are we there yet?" Imagine it was 1840 and you wanted to travel from California to the East Coast. You would most likely board a ship. A ship would go have to go around the tip of South America to get to the East Coast. This would take about 5 months. The only alternatives of getting there were crossing America by horse and wagon or taking the dangerous path through Panama, which took about 1 month. May 1869 marked the end of 6 long years of determination…