Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad
 Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad is a book written by David Haward Bain published in 2000. It follows the initial conception of the idea of a transcontinental railroad during the two decades before the Civil War to the work of the engineers and entrepreneurs who fixed the route assembled financing drafted a work force and launched the two lines toward the eventual meeting point at Promontory Summit Utah in 1869.