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Charles Crocker was the first Central Pacific Associate to ride the completed transcontinental road, tracing his former wagon route back east. The Transcontinental Railroad | Article
Grenville Dodge: Architect of the iron road, man of intrigue — Part 1 of 2. Grenville Dodge moved west to Illinois following graduation from Norwich University. He was passionate about building a transcontinental railroad. Photo courtesy of U.S. National Archives.
During the 1865 campaign in the Laramie Mountains in Wyoming (known then as the Black Hills), while escaping from a war-party, Dodge realized he had found a pass for the Union Pacific Railroad, west of the Platte River.
Grenville Mellen Dodge (born April 12, 1831, Danvers, Mass., U.S.—died Jan. 3, 1916, Council Bluffs, Iowa) was an American civil engineer who was responsible for much of the railroad construction in the western and southwestern United States during the 19th century.
29 lis 2022 · Dodge had railroad destruction high on his résumé, but here, prior to the Battle of Pea Ridge, it was the snow-covered Bentonville Detour—a major roadway—that he and his men worked diligently to wreck, felling trees to block the advance of troops in Earl Van Dorn’s Confederate army.
In 1859 young engineer Grenville Dodge met Abraham Lincoln by chance in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Dodge assured the future president that the Platte Valley would one day be the route of the...
In Andrew J. Russell’s iconic image of the event, “East and West Shaking Hands at Laying of Last Rail,” Grenville Dodge is at the center, shaking hands, the figure to the right. His work was vital to making the first transcontinental railroad a reality.
