[Alberta's Child]

No, this would be the first. 1869 marked the first time you could travel by rail from coast to coast, but you had to travel on multiple railroads back then.

A UP-NS merger would be the first time a single railroad company connected the Atlantic and Pacific coasts in the U.S.

[libstripper]

“A UP-NS merger would be the first time a single railroad company connected the Atlantic and Pacific coasts in the U.S.”

One of the things that most irritated Richard J Daley of Chicago Was the fact that, in spite of his great power as mayor, he could never get the railroads to combine so that anyone could go, while at one station, from one railroad to another to get across the country. You always had to change stations. I’m 82 and spent the first eighteen years of my life in the Chicago area.