{"id":15316,"date":"2023-12-11T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=15316"},"modified":"2023-12-10T20:06:52","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T02:06:52","slug":"the-last-link-in-the-transcontinental-railroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2023\/12\/the-last-link-in-the-transcontinental-railroad\/","title":{"rendered":"The last link in the Transcontinental Railroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that when the (first) Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869, there was no connection between Omaha and Council Bluffs? A bridge wouldn&#8217;t be built for three years.<\/p>\n<p>The story of that bridge, and how it took a whole bunch of legal work for Council Bluffs to be confirmed as the first eastern terminus of the Union Pacific, is covered <a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/around-the-world-and-across-the-missouri\">in my Substack post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/around-the-world-and-across-the-missouri\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15317\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/railroadpost.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/railroadpost.jpg 600w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/railroadpost-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/railroadpost-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As always, this is part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/iowawriters.substack.com\">Iowa Writers&#8217; Collaborative<\/a>, which has added some new writers in the past couple of months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that when the (first) Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869, there was no connection between Omaha and Council Bluffs? A bridge wouldn&#8217;t be built for three years. The story of that bridge, and how it took a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2023\/12\/the-last-link-in-the-transcontinental-railroad\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geography","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15318,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15316\/revisions\/15318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}