Full Steam Ahead: The Transcontinental Railroad

Fifth Grade Informational Text-Based Writing Railroads in America Source #1 Full Steam Ahead: The Transcontinental Railroad On July 4, 1870, a Boston trade official named Alex H. Rice stood on a San Francisco beach. In his hand was a bottle of water from the Atlantic Ocean that he had brought from the East Coast. At a signal from one of the other ................
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