Talk:First transcontinental railroad/Archive 1
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This article is americentric. What about the first transcontinental railway for all the _other_ continents?. Bryan Derksen
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Good comment. Do you have any ideas on what else this article should be titled? Perhaps we could then have First Transcontinental Railways point to the different continental railroads and have First Transcontinental Railroad (singular) redirected to First Transcontinental Railways. maveric149
Is "First Transcontinental Railroad" the proper name of the first transcontinental railroad in North America? The capitalization suggests this might be the case. If so, then it's appropriate for this content to remain here, but I think there should still be links to the other major rail lines. Not sure what I'd call it. Perhaps we could have a link-list article named "First transcontinental railways" (or maybe "Major railways" to include other significant routes such as the Orient Express) and then link to various important railways from there? I wasn't expecting to contribute to any of these articles, so I don't want to make any grand pronouncements on these matters. :) -BD
Perhaps when the new wiki software is ready, we can remane this article First Transcontinental Railroad (North America). However, some Canadians might object to this.... If that becomes the case, then "North America" could be changed to "(America)" or even "(United States of America)". maveric149
There was a railroad built across Panama in 1854. Shouldn't that be called the First Transcontinental Railroad? Moving this article to First Transcontinental Railroad (United States of America) would be a good idea. SFGiants
- Does any other country have an article on a first transcon rr? When we do reach that point I would recommend renaming the North American/USA one to First transcontinental railroad (US).
Rhallanger 23:38, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
- I think the tittle "First Transcontinental railroad" is wrong here. The first transcontinental railroad in the Americas was the Panama Railroad opened in 1855. This article should be renamed U.S. Transcontinental railroad or something similar, the "First" tittle can be given to many things, I don't think that the Panama Railroad article should be named "First transcontinental railroad" either, the fact that it was the first transcontinental railroad is included in the article. Radioheadhst 18:27, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
The Canadian National railway across Canada was not completed until 1885 (16 years after the American one.)
The first trans-Australia was completed 1912. The first north south trans-Australia should be completed in 2003.
The TransSiberia was completed 1905. Rmhermen 04:24, Sep 19, 2003 (UTC)
I don't understand what makes this article "Americentric." The railroad was built with the intention of linking the east coast of the United States with the west coast, and it was the first time anywhere in the world that a transcontinental railroad was built. Unless this conclusion is wrong, I can see nothing wrong with the title of the article. Leo Okonski
- Hunh? If you actually read the article, you will find that the one in the USA was not the first transcontinental railroad built. -- Infrogmation 17:48, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Note the capitalization - it is a proper name. --21:01, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)