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Full Steam Ahead: The Race to Build a Transcontinental Railroad.
Blumberg, Rhoda. National Geographic Society, 1996. (ISBN: 0-7922-2715-8). 160 pp. $18.95. Ages 9 and up. 1997 Orbis Pictus Honor Book.
The competitors in the race to build a transcontinental railroad-the Central Pacific Railroad Company, building eastward from Sacramento, California, and the Union Pacific Railroad Company, building westward from the Mississippi River-never lost sight of their primary goal. But was this goal to open transportation from the Atlantic to the Pacific? No, it was to enrich...