Some of the problems that they faced were diseases... cattle... heavy food supply! haha I'm actually doing the same thing. These were solved by when they finally got to California and could mine and afford their housing and get a job.
Generally speaking, travel from one country to another in the early 1900's were the following: * horseback; * horse drawn carriage; * ships; * railroad; As the century progressed the early automobile was also a possible means of transportation.
The railroad system in the United States began in the early 1820s. There were steam engines in the U.S. as early as the late 1700s when they arrived from England.
The Transcontinental Railroad Acts, also known as the Pacific Railroad acts, were acts passed in the early 1860s to encourage the construction of the transcontinental railroad. Construction was incentivized by giving land and bonds to the railroad companies.
Railroad tracks that were built in the early 1900s were constructed from steel. The steel was used to replace rail tracks and railway cars that were built from iron prior to the early 1900s.
There were three ways for shipping items and people. It was by ship, steamer, or railroad . By 1860 the railroad went east to the west coast taking passengers and goods through the central hub of Chicago. If items were coming from Europe it would have been by ship and river traffic in the United States was by steamer.
The building of a railroad through Texas
nobody could fix it again.
The first American Railroad was built in the North, called the Baltimore and Ohio, or B&O Railroad.
The builders of the Transcontinental Railroad ranged in age from the late 10's to their early 40's or 50's
From the early 1800's (mostly after 1830) to the present, with a peak about 1920.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
it was in South Carolina it ran from Charleston to hamburg