Yes sir! Blood sweat and tears that built our country. I always thought those slackers coming from the West! I forgot to realize that they had to go through the mountains! So thankful for the people who built it and Abraham Lincoln who organized it into law to be built!

@TheHistoryUnderground

4 жыл бұрын

Jim 3228 - Yeah, I think they were measuring progress in feet and inches per day with having to blast through that granite. Tough!

Another great video brother, It is amazing how much Abraham Lincoln was involved in. I often wonder what other great things he would have done if his life wasn't cut short. Thank You

@TheHistoryUnderground

4 жыл бұрын

Andre Guillette - It’s definitely a part of his presidency that you don’t often hear about.

Looking forward to next episode

@TheHistoryUnderground

4 жыл бұрын

JR D 👊🏻

Another great Video mate, I look forward to My Tuesday (your monday) morning Vlogs and coffee.

@TheHistoryUnderground

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Fascinating, looking forward to the next episode. Nice video. Later...

@TheHistoryUnderground

4 жыл бұрын

Roadlizardcu McGuire - Thanks!

Thank you. I love watching your videos, and following your virtual footsteps on Google Earth (I live literally on the other side of thw world).

@TheHistoryUnderground

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

So cool seeing that big Locomotive 🚂

@TheHistoryUnderground

4 жыл бұрын

ronnie cardy right?

Thank you for visiting and educating everyone about my state of Iowa and the transcontinental railroad! Love Omaha and Council Bluffs. Looking forward to the other videos down your journey.

@TheHistoryUnderground

4 жыл бұрын

Daniel August 🙏🏼

@debrahartley9254

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My husband and I traveled the state of Iowa (we're from Ohio). Iowa is an absolutely BEAUTIFUL state. So much to see and visit.

I love all of our history.I got to see Big Boy on NatGeo. Channel.You know they were really strong men and women in all the races that came here.You will never know how much your videos mean to me. I thank you from the bottom of my heart.so very enteresting.😊😊🇺🇸❤❤

@TheHistoryUnderground

4 жыл бұрын

Gayle Williamson - Thanks! That really does mean a lot.

Trains...important part of the fabric of America!

@TheHistoryUnderground

4 жыл бұрын

Beach3Girl 💪🏻

I love those old engines with their inner guts showing unlike the modern ones. Thanks for bringing us along on your road trip, much appreciated.

@TheHistoryUnderground

4 жыл бұрын

Chad Anderson - Thanks! I found them pretty interesting too.

I have taken the California Zephyr from Oakland to Chicago, which uses this route for the central part of the trip.

@TheHistoryUnderground

4 жыл бұрын

Stephen Dann - Nice! I’d love to do a trip like that.

I am glad to go with you all on your travels. I remember seeing that huge train. Great information as usual. 😃😃

@TheHistoryUnderground

4 жыл бұрын

Pamela Kern - Pretty interesting to see those big ol’ things.

@pamelakern2849

4 жыл бұрын

I am looking forward to the next video!!

Yet another outstanding video. I can't wait for the next one. (I live in the city at the western end of your journey...)

@TheHistoryUnderground

4 жыл бұрын

Stace Parsons 🙏🏼

I just love the transcontinental train history. I live near the "western terminus ". I've been to Sacramento Train Museum several times, I lived in the northern Tahoe region for the Donner Pass tunnel history. And last summer '19, I incorporated a stop at Promontory Point (150 yr anniversary)on a big solo motorcycle adventure to Calgary.

@TheHistoryUnderground

3 жыл бұрын

Very cool!

as always, it's a real pleasure for the french viewer that I am to learn more about US history on your channel ....thank you 😊

@frenchfan3368

4 жыл бұрын

Ça me fait plaisir de savoir qu'il y a des Français qui regardent cette chaine! Vous avez déjà visité les USA?

@serialloser1221

4 жыл бұрын

@@frenchfan3368 tout a fait New York 2 fois, San Francisco et Chicago ;)

@frenchfan3368

4 жыл бұрын

@@serialloser1221 Vous êtes de quel coin de l'Hexagone?

@TheHistoryUnderground

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoy it! Thanks for watching!

Dude yr doin a great job I was wondering if there are plans in the future to travel to the Pacific Islands of World War 2 that would Be great My father had served on a few of the battles that were fought......keep up the fantastic work Thank You

@TheHistoryUnderground

4 жыл бұрын

Paul Binder - Thanks! I would love to get to the Pacific one of these days. Just have to find the means to get there 🙂

Always enjoy watching and listening to you about forgotten history along with historical land marks. 👍🇺🇸👍 my Best always

@TheHistoryUnderground

4 жыл бұрын

X VSJ 🙏🏼

Great episode! I was out in Omaha and Council Bluffs in June of 2019. I wished that I had stopped by and seen these historical sites. Thanks for publishing this J. D. and as always, we eagerly look forward to the next episode!

@TheHistoryUnderground

4 жыл бұрын

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Awesome video as always. Keep up the good work my friend

@TheHistoryUnderground

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks again!

What a great topic. Where was that place in the first half of the video? Added these as places to visit next time I head that way. Thanks!!!

@TheHistoryUnderground

4 жыл бұрын

Michael Woodruff - Pretty interesting stuff. The first part was in Omaha right after you cross the Missouri River.

@michaelwoodruff9825

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheHistoryUnderground Found it on the map. Thanks again!

I’m re-watching Hell on Wheels and came to see the actual history behind the Transcontinental Railroad. I’m glad I found this video!

Thanks for your video. I call your attention to the book "Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow" which is as good a history of that building of the TransCon as I have found. One interesting fact that you will find is that almost all the building materials for the railroad were floated across Missouri. The bridge was not built until the project was nearly done and this because they got no land or bonds to sell to pay for the bridge.

@TheHistoryUnderground

4 жыл бұрын

I'll have to check that out. Thanks for the suggestion!

As always, interesting. Used to weld rims for some of those big tires before I retired.

@TheHistoryUnderground

4 жыл бұрын

Wow!

Brilliant vid again and I can’t wait for the next video and keep up the good work

@TheHistoryUnderground

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks a ton!

Hey JD. Check out Boys town in Omaha. You maybe past it though . Also wanted to recommend the best book on Tombstone that I've seen. It's called And Die in the West. by Paula Mitchell Marks. It's well researched and approaches both sides and a good read

@TheHistoryUnderground

4 жыл бұрын

Sue Prov - I’ve already passed through, but I’ll keep that in mind for the future. Thanks!

If I'm not mistaken, Big boy came through the tracks near my house and stoped in Gurdon Ar. A couple of times a few years ago. I personally didn't get to see it, DANG IT ! My wife took my son to see it. She said they called it Big boy. It was touring I guess. Looks like a beast ! Very cool

@TheHistoryUnderground

3 жыл бұрын

It is. Pretty impressive piece of engineering.

I always found it interesting all the activities going on in the west while the Civil War was occurring in the east.i read a newspaper article form NV in 1864 a mine town it said all the workers were war deserters the northern soldiers stayed on the north side of the street and the southerners on the south side of the street the got along fairly well ,but that did not prevent them from having a battle almost every Saturday night.

@TheHistoryUnderground

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting!

Great video, love the history of the railroad. Someday please share the podcast, books, and other KZread channels that inspire you. I noticed the podcast that you were listening to on your drive, it would be interesting to know more about what motivates you to create the content that you share. As always, thank you, and well done video.

@TheHistoryUnderground

4 жыл бұрын

That's a good idea. I might start incorporating that more on the Facebook and Instagram page.

Love your videos. Keep up the great work!

Stephen E. Ambrose Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869. A great work describing the build.

Next time you come to Council Bluffs definitely check out the railroad museum as well as the General Dodge house they are definitely worth seeing!... Interesting fact Abraham Lincoln came to Council Bluffs in 1859! And it was General Dodge who persuaded him to place the Eastern Terminus here. Myself being Born and raised in Council Bluffs i love the history here.

Excellent Again...Thanks....

So much you didn’t see here! The Durham museum is an old train station in Omaha. The general dodge house. He was instrumental in the railroads. And there’s a spot in council bluffs where Abraham Lincoln stood and decided the railroad would start! You must come back lol.

@TheHistoryUnderground

3 жыл бұрын

Doug McQuinn -Yeah, I wish that I could’ve spent more time there. Gives me a good excuse to come back 😄

My boss has at least a dozen original insulators from the first railroad telegraph line along the tracks.They push on not screw on,they later changed to the latter due to the natives being able to just pull the insulators off and disrupting the circuit. He found them by just walking along the original ROW.

Is there a similar monument in Sacramento at the Western terminus

Very cool and informative video again, thanks :)

@TheHistoryUnderground

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it! Pretty cool place.

The average for laying track on the Transcontinental Railroad was about two miles a day. However, the Union Pacific set a record by laying six miles of track in one day. Not to be outdone, the Central Pacific countered by laying seven miles shortly thereafter. Then, the Union Pacific came back by laying seven and a half miles in a day. You can see where this is going, right? Charlie Crocker, one of four businessmen heavily invested in the Central Pacific Railroad Company, announced his crew would lay ten miles of track in one day! The thought of such an impossible idea prompted Dr. Thomas Durant, vice president of the Union Pacific to bet $10,000 it couldn’t be done. The start of this incredible task began on April 27, 1869. But the Central Pacific got off to a poor start when an engine used to ferry supplies to the front of the line jumped the tracks and the start had to be postponed to the following day. At 7:00 am on April 28, 1869 the task began. By the time the crew broke for the midday meal, they had laid six miles of track. It has been reported that the men relaxed, smoked their pipes, and chatted. When the whistle blew ending dinner, they went right back at it. By the end of the day, Crocker’s crew had laid ten miles 56 feet of railroad track, a record that stood for the remainder of the transcontinental project. A newspaperman from the San Francisco “Alta” reported that 249 feet of track was laid every one minute 15 seconds, or about one mile an hour, or about the pace of a man on a leisurely walk.

@TheHistoryUnderground

3 жыл бұрын

Howard Nizely - Oh wow. Thanks for sharing that. Very cool story!

Great music choice

@TheHistoryUnderground

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

There is an amazing amount of history regarding the Chinese used to build the railroad from Sacramento to Utah and all the lives that they lost. Please don't skip it, their descendants still live today in the west. They should not be forgotten!

In your opening with semi with the big tires. Those are going to giant earthmovers out west in minds. They’re manufactured in Bloomington Illinois. I taking loads of them to mines out west

@TheHistoryUnderground

4 жыл бұрын

Jake Edwards - Oh wow. Thanks for the info. I wondered what those were. Also wondered how much each one costs.

@jakeedwards3739

4 жыл бұрын

The History Underground about 100 G for 1! The biggest one I ever pulled was 13 feet 4 inches wide! I had 4 of them on!

@jakeedwards3739

4 жыл бұрын

By video it’s looks like 107 inches ones. Which just over the line for oversize loads!

Great video man! I sent an email regarding my latest trip to the Ardennes. I hope you find it interesting.

Was Jocko the sponsor?! Love that guy lol

@TheHistoryUnderground

4 жыл бұрын

Dylan Antonacci - Ha! Yeah, Origin and I are collaborating on some projects.

im sure you already know this, but if your following the rails all the way to sacramento, you have to go the the train museum there. if its open.

@TheHistoryUnderground

4 жыл бұрын

Definitely hope to get there someday

Has PBS ever contacted you about doing historical content programming? You have a good voice and mannerism for doing such. Looking forward to the next video! I'm a railfan too!

@TheHistoryUnderground

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Can't say that I've ever got a call from them :)

Man thats gonna be a rough boring drive. I generally went west down 44 just because it was more interesting. I'd send you more things from here JD but there's just not much left 75 years later really

@TheHistoryUnderground

4 жыл бұрын

There were some long uneventful stretches of road through there lol

@vw2112

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheHistoryUnderground wait until middle Nebraska to Cheyenne

I have the last golden spike of Union Pacific no 844

i watched a dvd series about this transcontinental rail a year ago for the like of me i cant remember its name help do u remember it

@TheHistoryUnderground

4 жыл бұрын

Oh man. I'm not sure but I'd like to see it too :)

@sbiggs10

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheHistoryUnderground i find it google "hell on wheels"

I don't think there's anything in Sacramento that marks the western terminus. There's nothing for the Pony Express either except the old Wells Fargo bank in Old Town.

@TheHistoryUnderground

3 жыл бұрын

Oh man. That's a shame.

@johnholzhey8149

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheHistoryUnderground I know. Especially if you go to St. Joe and go through the old stable there.

It would be cool to ride a steam engine ride from Iowa to California.

@TheHistoryUnderground

4 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing.

Are you aware that one of the "Big Boys" has been restored and is in service as a special train?

@TheHistoryUnderground

3 жыл бұрын

I didn't know that. Wow!

@steveschlackman4503

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheHistoryUnderground Lots of videos on KZread of Big Boy 4014. UP spent a lot on the restoration. Done in 2019.

a good documentary about this watch "Hell on wheels"

@TheHistoryUnderground

3 жыл бұрын

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Why was there opposition to the transcontinental railroad?! That makes no sense.

many native Americans had to suffer this major breakthrough with there lively hoods don't erase history nor sweep it under the rug can't ignore a wrong that can't be fixed and me 1/4 native American blood line myself and 1/36 white blood line.

@sergeantmajorflaremane8831

4 жыл бұрын

@Ellison Rodgerstrue to be true but the first holocaust had have millions of native Americans to died to build and form the USA that something they won't teach ya in history class.