The first ten miles of the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad are completed in this year.
What is 1848?
100
His motivation was pure and simple: unify the nation.
Who is Lincoln?
100
Connecting these "rushing" businessmen from the East to California created these winners.
What are gold miners?
100
The completion of this made travel between San Francisco and New York possible within 10 days.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
100
The Oregon Short Line is completed, connecting the UP main line at Granger, Wyoming to the Pacific Northwest via the Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation Company in this year.
What is 1884?
200
President Abraham Lincoln signs the Pacific Railroad Act in this year.
What is 1862?
200
He loved the engineering and resigned when he recognized that greed motivated the people funding the building of the railroad.
Who is Theodore Judah?
200
Using natural resources from the west to pay for the war efforts created these winners.
What is the Union Army?
200
This brought resources, people, and industry to the central United States.
What is the joining of the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific rail lines?
200
While pushing the Oregon and California Railroad line from east Portland to San Francisco, promoters approached Philander Lee for land in 1870. For $2,960 he sold 111 acres for the 24-block city, 12 lots per block. The Knight family sold the remainder of this number of acres to the railroad.
What were 300 acres?
300
More miles of track laid in the U.S. than anywhere in the world in this year.
What is 1859?
300
This was the driving force behind Crocker, Huntington, Hopkins, and Stanford.
What is money?
300
Sherman knew that the solution to the "Native American problem" was eradicating their source of food, clothing and shelter. The railroad, by bisecting the great herds of these, provided a source of transportation for hunters, thus speeding up the animals' elimination.
What are bison?
300
The best route was the southern one, but this event caused the more northerly route to be selected.
What is slavery or the Civil War?
300
This many miles connected the main-line railroad southward to link Canby with the transcontinental system.
What was 100 miles?
400
In what year was funding guaranteed by the federal government for the first time?
What is 1864?
400
A young civil engineer and Union officer, Dodge was hired to replace Durant, "a self-serving financial strategist," and his motivation was more noble.
What is to find the best route?
400
These people lost their land, their rights, and their way of life to a great extent because of the rapid population growth made possible by the railroad.
What is the Native American?
400
Along with the completion of the railroad, another "monumental epic engineering feat" was completed, ensuring that people could travel from east to west and west to east.
What is the completion of the Suez Canal?
400
This is Oregon's oldest railroad station.
What is the Canby Depot Museum?
500
The manual block system of traffic control is developed.
What is 1865?
500
Dey "resigned the best position in [his] profession this country has ever offered to any man" because he disagreed with Durant over this.
What was property?
500
These laborers on the railroad had great ill feeling toward each other. They had crossed different oceans to reach the United States. Both won employment, but many lost their lives in working so hard on the railroad.
Who were the Irish and the Chinese?
500
Even though the railroad was hugely important for the war efforts in both WWI and WWII, when the servicemen came home after WWII, they used these for traveling rather than the trains.
What were cars?
500
Canby Historical Society was able to prevent the dismantling of the Canby Depot by doing this for the move of the depot to its present location near N.E. 4th and Pine Streets adjacent to the Clackamas County Fairgrounds.