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Facts About the Transcontinental Railroad On the wide canvas of mid-nineteenth-century America, a monumental dream was beginning to take shape. It was Theodore Judah, an ambitious engineer, who first envisioned a railroad that would span the continent, linking the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. His vision was embraced by Congress and, through the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862, the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad was officially commissioned. Over the next seven…