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Two rival rail companies, led by Charles Crocker of the Central Pacific and Thomas Durant of the Union Pacific, will stop at nothing to best each other while competing to create the most ambitious engineering project the world has ever seen--an unprecedented railroad that crosses through the wild American continent and unites a divided nation. Episode 1 of The Engineering That Built the World. [42:00]
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