Find out more about the people and events featured in the film.

People:

• Workers of the Central Pacific Railroad
• Workers of the Union Pacific Railroad
• Oakes Ames (1804-1873)
• Jack Casement (1829-1909) and Frances Jennings Casement (1840-1928)
• Charles Crocker (1822-1885)
• Edwin Bryant Crocker (1818-1875)
• Grenville Dodge (1831-1916)
• Thomas Clark Durant (1820-1885)
• Mark Hopkins (1813-1878)
• Collis P. Huntington (1821-1900)
• Theodore Judah (1826-1863)
• Leland Stanford (1824-1893)

Events:

• Asa Whitney (1791-1874) and Early Plans for a Transcontinental Railroad
• Native Americans and the Transcontinental Railroad
• The Race to Utah
• Tunneling in the Sierra Nevada
• The Crédit Mobilier Scandal
• The Chinese Workers' Strike
• Hell on Wheels
• Nitroglycerin
• The Impact of the Transcontinental Railroad