Modern Marvels

The Railroads That Tamed the West

TV-PG
S3 • E8    Oct 20, 1995    44m
The year was 1869 and America had just completed the greatest building achievement in its history–the Transcontinental Railroad. A thin ribbon of steel and wood now connected East and West. But the fledgling country now faced an even greater challenge–how to harness the awesome potential of the railroad to tame the still wide-open and wild West.

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Cast of The Railroads That Tamed the West

  • Lloyd SherrSelf - Narrator

 

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