building of a railroad
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Building of a Railroad
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Mining towns used the trains to bring in
supplies and to carry away the minerals.
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These railroads were completed in Colorado.
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Does this look easy to build?
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Lots of bridges had to be built.
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Trestle - the framework that holds up the bridge
Bridges had to be constructed over rivers and streams.
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Tunnels were dug through the mountains.
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Workers had dangerous jobslcweb2.loc.gov
They needed lots of railroad workersdese.mo.gov www.nationalatlas.gov memory.loc.gov
Immigrants from Europe and Asia worked on building the railroads.
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They lived far from homehttp://memory.loc.gov
The railroads carried materials and people to the Westhttp://memory.loc.gov