Essay on Cultural Impact of the Railway of Victorian England

The first chapter of Billy Sunday gives us an insight of the early childhood of Billy Sunday. Billy and Ed Sunday departed on a train from Ames, Iowa to go to the Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home’ at Glenwood, because Ms. Sunday, who lost her husband in the war, could not afford to keep her kids at home and take care of them. Ed Sunday was the brother of Billy. On the way to the orphan home, the train stopped in Council Bluffs and they had to take a freight train to rest of the way to the orphan home. In the end, the brakeman showed compassion to the boys by giving them the train ride for free.

On the other side of the railroad tracks a train crash can be seen. The two trains crashing into each other are titled “Van” and “Clay” describing two candidates running for presidency in the 1844 election. Also seen are people running away from this crash. These candidates are Martin Van Buren and Henry Clay who were both in the presidential election of 1844, Buran was democratic and Clay was a Whig however both “supported” (used loosely) the anti-slavery side, the election put them up against each other amongst other candidates, however either one was cheated of the presidential position when a “dark horse” was nominated into office. This gives them the perception of crashing and burning as shown by the train crash. This train crash alluding to the candidates relates to the sectional crisis because with both of these candidates losing Polk wins the election and adds Texas to the union which is a slave state, angering the anti-slavery people. Passengers are running from the scene of the crash because supporters of these candidates did not make it into office and Polk who was nominated never took a definitive stance on

Its social and economic impacts dwell greatly in the 1800’s to the era of 2000’s as trains have always turned America into something greater in those times where travel and transport were at its hardest, but in 1862 congress passed a bill in which it would forge new history all together with the Pacific Railroad Bill and several grants that allowed financial support for Railroad companies primarily Central Pacific

In the second half of the 1800 's, the railroad, which was invented in England,

Have you ever seen a railroad? Well, there was a time when railroads were desperately needed. This was the time of the Transcontinental Railroad. In my paper I will explain the purpose of the railroad, challenges the workers faced, and the results of the finished railroad.

It was the same with the omnibus that was created in 1826, because it moved slowly and didn’t hold many people. The steam railroad was another form of transportation that was introduced in 1835 and it was a better form of transportation because it moved quicker and could hold many more passengers, but it was also expensive and didn’t always take the people to where they wanted to go because it didn’t stop very often, and only went one route.

“If any act symbolized the taming of the Northwest frontier, it was the driving of the final spike to complete the nation’s first transcontinental railroad.”1 The first railroad west of the Mississippi River was opened on December 23, 1852. Five miles long, the track ran from St. Louis to Cheltanham, Missouri. Twenty-five years prior, there were no railroads in the United States; twenty-five years later, railroads joined the east and west coasts from New York to San Francisco.2

There was so many thing to get a person around the place but when the y can out with the steam boats and the R&R train there was a different way of getting to place to place. Back then there was so many thinning that was happening like cotton and rail road so they needed to find people to get it places so they made the train and steam boat. Transportation was a big deal back then likes who is going to take my things and stuff, and who was going to make it here. They all needed to make it place so someone in the South would use the steam boat to where they need to go and if they can’t make it that far they would have getting the train and get there place. People back then need transportation and they got two big ones.

By the middle of the 19th century, the Industrial Revolution was changing the face and culture of the United States. Demand for raw materials and new inventions was increasing. From 1800-1850, territories claimed by the United States had grown to stretch from the East Coast to the West Coast. The spirit of “Manifest Destiny”, the California Gold Rush, and the promise of rich new land, ripe with raw materials and opportunity drew settlers ever westward. Following the invention of the steam engine, trains were becoming very important to the expansion of civilization and its infrastructure. Trains and the railroads they ran on soon became the lifeblood of industrialized economic development across the country. Public and private partnerships were formed with railroad companies to provide them with vast amounts of investment funding. Within a few decades, the railroad companies and their transcontinental railroads ushered in the Gilded Age and changed American society forever.

The development of the railroads was the beginning of a new transport system in America, it connected the east and west, and the communication across the continent grew easier. With the railroads brought new life to deserted towns, people settled along the railways, it was faster for people to travel from one way to the next, it was cheaper, and it led to new industries in lead,coal, and

Roads brought many dangers to the stagecoach travelers. Not only did they have to bear the unpleasant whirlwinds of dust that were roads in the summer, and the mud pits they were in the winter, but they also had to worry about tree-strew roads, rickety bridges, carriage overturns, and runaway horse. Despite this danger, people had still travelled and taverns began to spring up all main routes of travel. These taverns provided a place to rest from travelling the worrisome trip as provide luxuries such as bowling, billiards, and bars. Finally, the mail system became a consequence of the new road system connecting the major cities in the mid-1700’s but service was slow and privacy was not present as mail carriers would pass time by reading the letters and parcels they were entrusted

The Transcontinental Railroad was one of the most ambitious engineering projects, economic stimulants, and efficient methods of transportation in the early United States. If completed, the United States would be truly be united from east to west. The purpose of this paper is to examine how the Transcontinental Railroad helped develop new opportunities for many aspects of American life.

Imagine yourself sleeping soundly and you awake suddenly to the sounds chuggachuggachuggachugga CHOO CHOO! You realize it was only the train passing by, and you roll over to sleep longer. You have done this many times without even the thought of where trains originated. The train was first invented in 1830, but it did not truly flourish until the Gilded Age. Prior to the Gilded Age, only approximately 45,000 miles of track had been laid, and between 1871 and 1900 170,000 miles were added. This was all done with the help of Congress . In 1862, Congress passed the Pacific Railway Act, which authorized the construction of a transcontinental railroad. The first transcontinental railroad was completed on May 10, 1869. Four additional transcontinental

Railroads became extremely popular in America in the 1800’s. The railroad industry itself began to boom; it was supported by its reputation for speed and efficiency. But, along with the booming industry of railroads came the strong debate that

Railroads have been an important part of America’s history. These railroads had a major role in the settlement of the West. The most important railroad in American history is the transcontinental railroad. The transcontinental railroad impacted western settlement by bringing in immigrants, aiding travel to the frontier, and changing people and the economy.