TY - ADVS ED - History Channel (Television network) ED - Arts and Entertainment Network. ED - New Video Group. TI - Transcontinental Railroad SN - 0767092112 AV - DVD HE 2751 .T734 2006 PY - 2006///], c1995 CY - [New York, N.Y.] PB - A&E Television Networks, Distributed by New Video KW - Union Pacific Railroad Company KW - Central Pacific Railroad Company KW - Railroads KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Design and construction KW - sears KW - Television programs KW - Documentary television programs KW - Documentary KW - Television series KW - local N1 - Title from container; Originally broadcast on The History Channel in 1995 N2 - The Transcontinental Railroad was an engineering marvel as well as a technological nightmare. In the 1860s, the Union Pacific began laying tracks westward from Omaha, and the Central Pacific did the same heading eastward from Sacramento. Work on the railroad represented the nation's struggle to forge an iron link between East and West, making cross-country travel faster and easier than ever ER -