num_pages: 797
description: A dramatic history of the construction of America's first transcontinental railroad chronicles three seminal decades in American history, describing the vast enterprise to build a railroad from Missouri to the Pacific in terms of the remarkable expansion of the United States of America. 30,000 first printing.
language: English
title: Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad
titlecomplete: Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad
genres: Trains, Historical, History, Politics, Economics, Engineering, American History, Business, Railways, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 332
publisher: Viking Adult