(The Central Pacific's engine Jupiter and the Union Pacific's engine No. 119 meet on May 10, 1869, at Promontory Summit, Utah. http://railroad.lindahall.org/essays/brief-history.html)
If a man who lives in Madison city make up his mind to seek his own manifest destiny to the west after the Wright Brothers made their first flying machine into air, he has better chance to success than early American pioneers who took their wagon into the unknown Rocky mountains and the wild west.
After preparation done, the man go to railroad station to take a train to Milwaukee, Chicago, and then transfer into a Union Pacific's train that depart from Omaha to San Francisco.
He may tired the flatness of the great Plains before train drives into Utah. The man could amazed from the train crosses the Great Salt Lake by Lucin Cutoff. Roughness mountains in Nevada might cause the man feels sick. He will be feel comfortable when train drives flat route in Sacramento. He can finally arrives San Francisco after the last hilly route.
(http://www.trestlewood.com/page/1020/)
The man's journal may ends on San Francisco, but his experience from The Transcontinental Railroad will pass down into his descendants. His descendants will amaze peoples at the beginning of the Century of Flight could crossing the Rocky Mountain and the Intermontane West.
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