This is dedicated to MRS.MARSHALL

A trail that the Indians started a footpath from the Red River To Austin later the route was known as the Shawnee Trial upon which millions of Longhorn cattle were driven to markets in north.

Frisco was part of the St.Louis- based railroads that operated in nine Midwest and southern states from 1876 to 1980.The Frisco was apart of the Pacific railroad project in the 19th century.

The First transcontinental Railroad known originally as the  Pacific Railroad it was a 1,912-mile 3,077 km continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. The Transcontinental Railroad, once completed, allowed Americans to settle the west, to transport goods and expand commerce, and to travel the width of the country in days, instead of weeks.  

The Central Pacific Railroad, which had already built the first railroad west of the Mississippi, was hired to forge the path east from Sacramento. For each mile of track laid in the plains, the companies would receive $16,000 in government bonds. As the terrain got tougher, the payouts got bigger. A mile of track laid in the mountains yielded $48,000 in bonds. And the companies got land for their efforts, too. For each mile of track laid, a ten square mile parcel of land was provided.

The Union Pacific Railroad only managed to lay 40 miles of track by the end of 1865, but with the Civil War drawing to a close, they could finally build a workforce equal to the task at hand. The Union Pacific relied mainly on Irish workers, many of whom were famine immigrants and fresh off the battlefields of the war. Workers used hammers and chisels to pick away at the stone, progressing little more than one foot per day despite hour after hour of work. The excavation rate increased to nearly 2 feet per day when workers started using chemical to blast away some of the rock.

President Abraham Lincoln was somehow able to look beyond the urgent needs of the country at war, and focus on his vision for the future. He signed the Pacific Railway Act into law on July 1, 1862, committing federal resources to the ambitious plan to build a continuous rail line from the Atlantic to the Pacific. By the decade's end, the railroad would be completed.

By mid-1862, the United States was entrenched in a bloody Civil War that strained the resources of the young country. With most of the country's able-bodied men on the battlefield, workers for the Transcontinental Railroad were initially in short supply. In California, white workers were more interested in seeking their fortunes in gold than in doing the back-breaking labor required to build a railroad. The Central Pacific Railroad turned to Chinese immigrants, who had flocked to the U.S. as part of the gold rush.