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• The Kansas Pacific Railway and the Struggle to Become a Transcontinental Line

  

  Image: Engineer camp at the Zuni Pass, in the Sierra Madre, N.M., 975 miles west of Missouri River. The Kansas Pacific Railway and the Struggle to Become a Transcontinental Line In the decade after the American Civil War, few ambitions loomed larger in the imagination of railroad promoters than the dream of a second transcontinental…

  May 29, 2026

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  #1860s, #1870s, #American History, #American Old West, #Arizona, #California, #Event & History, #Historical Photos, #History, #History Daily #History Daily With Francis Chappell Black #HMS Good Hope, #History Daily With Francis Chappell Black, #Railroad History, #The Kansas Pacific Railway