Building the Transcontinental Railroad: An Interactive Engineering Adventure (You Choose: Engineering Marvels)

Building the Transcontinental Railroad: An Interactive Engineering Adventure (You Choose: Engineering Marvels) by Otfinoski, Steven. library edition. ISBN: 9781491404010.

You live in a United States on the move in the 1860s. The government gives two railroad companiesthe Central Pacific and Union Pacificthe job of building the first transcontinental railroad. This railroad will unite the country and allow people to travel west to pursue new lives and opportunities. Will you: Toil as a Chinese worker for the Central Pacific? Work as an Irish laborer for the Union Pacific? Serve as an engineer for the Central Pacific in the final race to complete the railroad? Experience situations taken from real life. YOU CHOOSE what youll do next. The choices you make will either lead you to successor to failure.