Standard Time Zones created by the railroad industry in the 1880's rather than solar time.
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Immigrants and minorities did most of the work on the first transcontinental railroad.
people celebrated when the railroad was complete! :D
No one "invented" the Continental Railroad. Continental Railroad was the name given to the railroad that spanned America (US) from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
This is true. The Union Pacific Railroad was the first trans-continental railroad. It ran from Chicago and Promontory Point, Utah.
Rutherford B. Hayes was the president during the Great Railroad Strike.