Empire Express
Subtitle: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad
Publisher: Diane Pub Co
Published: June 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 797
ISBN-13: 9780756758387
Subjects: Transportation; Railroads - History
First sentence: Nine weeks out of New York and bound for Macao, the leaky and overburdened merchant barque Oscar struggled to round the Cape of Good Hope and was becalmed.