Across the United States by train Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
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About Across the United States by train
Prior to the advent of the automobile and commercial air travel afterWorld War II, trains were the dominant mode of long-distance travel in the United States, with many rail companies competing on price, luxury and speed. One of the most significant events in the history of rail travel is the driving of the final spike atPromontory,Utahin 1869, marking the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad, and making coast-to-coast travel by rail across theNorth Americancontinent possible for the first time. Railways played a key role in theindustrialization of the United Statesand in the colonization of theOld West. The classic coast-to-coast journey from San Francisco to New York City was perhaps most notably featured in French writer Jules Verne's novelAround the World in Eighty Days. A
Across the United States by train Travel Guide Sections
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