Steam Engine
Central Pacific
Union Pacific
Problems
Preparation for the railroad
100
Peter Cooper
Who invented the first steam engine
100
east
In which direction did the Central Pacific lay tracks?
100
west
What is the direction the Union Pacific built tracks?
100
airbrakes
What invention solved the problem of stopping the train safely
100
Abraham Lincoln
Who signed the Railroad Act of 1862?
200
locomotive
What is another name for the steam engine?
200
Sierra Nevada
What is the mountain range that was a barrier to the Central Pacific?
200
Omaha, Nebraska
What is the city where the Union Pacific began to lay tracks?
200
George Westinghouse
Who invented the airbrakes?
200
two
How many companies were given the right to build the railroad?
300
engineer
Who watches the tracks ahead?
300
Sacramento
What is the city where the Central Pacific started building tracks?
300
praire
What is type of land that the Union Pacific first laid tracks on?
300
sidetracks
What invention kept trains from running into each other?
300
transcontinental
What is the name of the railroad that went from the west coast to the east coast?
400
fireman
Who shovels coal into the firebox and keeps the fire going?
400
Promontory, Utah
Where did the Central Pacific meet the Union Pacific?
400
Rocky Mountains
What is the mountain range the Union Pacific faced after the prairie?
400
time problem
What is timezones?
400
money and free land
What was promised to the two companies who were to build the transcontinental railroad?
500
Old Ironsides
What is the name of the full-sized train that Mathias Baldwin built?
500
Ten-Mile Day
What is the day that the Central Pacific set the record of laying 10 miles of track in a day?
500
Irish
Who are the workers that were hired by the Union Pacific to build the railroad?
500
afternoon
What will it be on the West Coast, if it is early evening on the East Coast
500
steamboat
What is a machine that can travel up a river against the current?
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