stackyFACTSThe 1869 completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad is lauded as an engineering marvel, but it was also a massive ecological catastrophe marketed as a luxury vacation.
The 1869 completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad is lauded as an engineering marvel, but it was also a massive ecological catastrophe marketed as a luxury vacation. Railroad companies heavily promoted 'hunting by rail,' where affluent tourists would literally sit in velvet-lined train cars with rifles, gunning down hundreds of bison from the windows as the train rolled by, entirely ignoring the carcasses left to rot in the sun.
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