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=﻿Transcontinental Railroads= The First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States was built in the 1860s, linking the developing railway network of the Eastern coast with California. Ceremonially completed on May 10, 1869, it gave America a nation-wide transportation network, forever changing the American West. The rail line was one of the crowning achievements of the presidency of Abraham Lincoln, completed four years after his death. The Pacific Railway Act of 1862 chartered two private enterprises: the Union Pacific Railroad that built the line westward and the Central Pacific Railroad that built eastward.