* Chicago became the nation's leading rail center by 1860
* Railroads reached the Mississippi River in 1854; first railroad bridge over the Mighty Mo was in 1856.
* West coast rail operations began in Sacramento Valley in 1856 with two locomotives that had been brought around Cape Horn by ship.
* The first railroad tunnel was built in 1833 near Johnstown, Pennsylvania; it was about 900 feet long.
* The hook-headed spike used by railroads to fasten rails to crossties was first patented in 1840.
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