It was okay, but subtly "Woke Grooming" and anti-American. If they spent more of the budget on sets and hardware, and less on writing in "woke" moments and characters this series could have made a bit more history.

Hell n wheels is the best show ever

One of the survey parties was attacked by Indians, and fellow was scalped. He lived, and I believe his scalp is still in the UP museum.

I bet that was very rewarding work. How could one not like being outside and using some good old trig? I’ve often thought that any profession that uses higher level math should be required to do manual calculations on a semi regular basis just to keep the mind sharp. 🤠

History ? Yeah blood and crime....

over the bodies of 'good Indians', like Black Kettle and his wife. Why don't white people ever tell the truth. America was built on blood and greed.

It's an amazing story

@@kindlefoxx4566 America was built on the backs of blacks, irish, as well as many more. We can't change it but we can honor our histories.

@@kindlefoxx4566 agree 100%

That rarely if ever happens now.

@@swingrfd destroying the barely damaged cargo still happens. A few years back, a CSX auto rack derailed outside of Kingston, GA. My brother in law asked to buy one of the brand new jeeps that they were driving to the portable car crusher. His offer was declined.

You must mean due to insurance fraud?

@@randallwhite536 Not fruad, for liability! If they sell a car, it later gets in an accident or breaks, the railway gets the bill! So they just crush everything.

Ken Burns ultra lite. A bit tedious and with a lot of hyperbole.

@@jeffreymcneal1507 As opposed to Ken Burns, [unprintable].

Actually…these stations get the majority of their funds from individual contributions and underwriters. Tax dollars might be 15%.

You are so wrong. Tax payers do not pay for this. You think Sesame Street is funded by taxes? It is 100% donations by individuals and organization including the Koch brothers. You need to do research before you make ignorant comments about Taxes. They get tax breaks which may be what you are thinking of, they just don't have to pay as much taxes like a regular cable channel because they are funded by the public and provide education for free.

Have fun- big sky out there!

Shackles

Mmm,…. Depends how much you like steel I guess. :(

@@pritz47 😉

Well, you're almost correct. It is Interstate 80 that crosses Wyoming......I-70 crosses Colorado.

Unfortunately, that is like waiting for stampedes to be a thing of the past for herds. Of course, as humans we can educate ourselves and our children to be careful and criticize thinkers to help them avoid being victims or useful tools of con men and groupthink, but there is such a strong current of anti-intellectualism and disdain for education and science in large parts of the U.S.

@@inkyguy Umm.. Yeah, as long as our universities are places where education has taken a back seat to indoctrination for left wing extremism, and hate and violence towards any one who does not agree with them. Who scream the loudest about their freedom of speech while denying it to others. Where they openly state they are more interested in creating "activists" than educating young people to think critically for themselves to function in the real world. Universities used to be a place where all ideas were free to be looked at and talked about, and where students were encouraged to explore all viewpoints and different ideologies. It starts in high schools and even earlier than that where teachers unions have an iron hand. Then professors with their worthless "studies" degrees who spout nonsense behind the shield of tenure who we are supposed to believe actually know what they are talking about. Get out in the real world, any degree with "studies" at the end is looked at as a joke. It's all a political power grab. Disdain?...... you bet.

@@johnstudd4245 Very well said. If we were in person I’d shake your hand and toast a toast to your good health. 🍻

John Studd SHOTS FIRED!

@@johnstudd4245 Well stated - thank you. His 'rant' is know-nothing blather.

WOHA….! Go Mike!!!

Agreed to greed

Lust for everything. We’ll call it “freedom” for the plebs.

Humans by our very nature are greedy animals. The Earth will cure our infection. End of the line.

I do that a lot too.

except for the racism and genocide lol

Ok ! what ever lie you want to believe!

Is there any difference?

There is a direct correlation...

To be clear, the Feds were NOT handing out money, but land and bonds (which had to be redeemed, with interest). That redemption bankrupted the UP. See www.britannica.com/event/Pacific-Railway-Acts

Federal money? I think that money belongs to the tax payers!

Look at it playing out again in 2021 . . .

Thank you ! Going to watch tonight.

It was made by AMC. Netflix just has rights to stream it.

Just FYI, Comstock Lode. Otherwise, it sounds like someone needs a change of drawers.

@Barry Dillard Exactly! Thanks.

I'm no longer a big fan nor funder of PBS because of no longer being separated from political biases. And joining in with what I consider the tearing down of conservatorship of our great American lives and true family values...Some Americans may not understand my thinking but it means so much to me knowing there is much lost by non profits being involved in politics... PBS made a stand in are past election of our President...They must accept responsibility for no further funding by me and others, until a whole new board of directors See's fit to denounce further involvement in politics... Until that is announced we will not provide monies...Andrew Carnegie felt the same way about the controlling of biases of either parties in public broadcasting...

@@drydesert8036 Thanks...you say it well. The L.eft totally lost it's moral compass...😇

What highway was it along?

It lies between two sets of tracks that stop at a gorge,canyon or great fissure. That would be where your railroad trestle would be!

Google earth it you'll find it

If you”re anymore vague I’d say just follow the rail line until you are a trestle in Wyoming.

I thought something similar. Central Pacific had to cross the challenging Sierra Nevada Mountain Range where they used predominantly Chinese (Coollie) Labor to break through the mountains with tunnels.

There are no government ethics either.

You do realize a rail a length of iron that is placed on wood. There is 5 beams to a rail. Not a hard concept.

Similar to Route 66 years later

That's right. His main goal was to save the Union and he gave his life for it.

Slavery was an antique: morally, financially, ethically. Male DNA genocide from the hundreds of thousands of young soldiers killed in the War Between the States. Ain't no "civil" wars

I think you right

And Southern Democrats killed Abraham Lincoln because of his views of that so how you like that Abraham Lincoln's try to keep the nation together and the Democrats down-south we're trying to separate and do it for their own and this trip to get every everything that they could get this thing about that people who were the bad people I believe it was the Democrats who killed Abraham Lincoln annihilated Native American population under General us Grant it was president at the time is nice friend General Sherman

Lincoln wouldn't have been elected if he ran on a strictly abolitionist platform. He walked a tightrope, He new he wouldn't be able to get the northern whites to sacrifice their life to free the slaves, but to save the union, yes. And if the union was victorious, then, eventually slavery would end.

bob brooks Ok so how did they drill the holes, oh wise one.

tom nordstrom I've always wanted to know how a star drill works Bob, do tell.

Bob, Tom, Freddy; A star drill for making holes in rock is so-named because its shape on-end resembles a star with 3, 4, 5 or 6 lobes or 'rays' ~ also known as a bore-bit, stone or rock-drill, a steel rock drill is essentially a multi-bladed chisel with a star-shaped point used for making holes in stones or masonry; it's operated by hitting the end with a heavy hammer while the drill-holder rotates it between blows ~ each ray chisel cuts into the fresh area of the bore-face, rock-fragments being broken and displaced into the area between the rays where it trickles-out on a horizontal bore or scooped/pulled-out on vertical bores. Eventually modified to use mechanical, hydraulic and pneumatic impulse technology and used in road-building, mining and oil-industry until universally replaced/supplanted with modern industrial rotary drills like those invented by the Hughes Company (of Howard Hughes family fame) ....

I've used star drills and I used them just like the guy ( clumsily ) explains.

@@starmanskye That is sort of what the narrator described...

Subsidies for roads and airlines killed the railroads.

The railroad was a monopoly

You have no idea about the Civil war then to say such an ignorant statement. The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy. The central cause of the war was the status of slavery, especially the expansion of slavery into territories acquired as a result of the Louisiana Purchase and the Mexican-American War. Look it up sometime.

@@EricHamm 🤡

Didn't

True, horses died out at the end of the pleistocene in the America's and only came back when the europeans brought the horses with them when they colonized America

It is a drain on the federal treasury.

"vicious financial attack" is not the reason for the civil war. It was to abolish slavery. To say otherwise is just ignorance. You don't force anyone to succeed, that is done by the people wanting to succeed. It is the literal definition of succeed. What is wrong with you? The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy. The central cause of the war was the status of slavery, especially the expansion of slavery into territories acquired as a result of the Louisiana Purchase and the Mexican-American War.

@@EricHamm 😂

The missing words are in the captions. "track layers" Just an audio glitch.