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The Pacific Railroad Surveys (1853–1855) were a series of explorations of the American West designed to find and document possible routes for a transcontinental railroad across North America. The expeditions included surveyors, scientists, and artists and resulted in an immense body of data covering at least 400,000 square miles (1,000,000 km ...
July 15 – Sidney Breese, U.S. senator from Illinois known as the "father of the Illinois Central Railroad" (d. 1878). July 29 – George Bradshaw, English cartographer, printer and publisher and the originator of the railway timetable (d. 1853).
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Originally it was intended to extend the railroad to Canajoharie, New York. Chartered in 1830, [1] it never achieved its intended goal of connecting its namesake villages. [2] A ground breaking ceremony was held in 1831, [1] but construction did not begin in earnest until 1836 when the route was surveyed by George H. Cook. [3]
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The Kansas Pacific Railway main line shown on an 1869 map. The thickened portion along the line indicates the extent of the land grants available for sale by the railroad to settlers. At the time of the map, the line extended only as far as western Kansas (section in green).
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Railroads played a large role in the development of the United States from the Industrial Revolution in the North-east 1810–1850 to the settlement of the West 1850–1890. The American railroad mania began with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1828 and flourished until the Panic of 1873 bankrupted many companies and temporarily ended growth.