2010 BBC audiobook entitled The Runaway Train, read by Matt Smith and written for audio by Oli Smith. The construction of the transcontinental railroad provides the setting for the AMC television series Hell on Wheels. Thomas Durant is a regular character in the series and is portrayed by actor Colm Meaney. See also Chin Lin Sou History of rail transportation in California Interstate 80 – present-day New York-to-San Francisco transport link (highway) List of heritage railroads in the United States Overland Route (Union Pacific Railroad) Transcontinental railroad Notes References Further reading Chang, Gordon H. (2019). Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Cooper, Bruce C., "Riding the Transcontinental Rails: Overland Travel on the Pacific Railroad 1865–1881" (2005), Polyglot Press, Philadelphia Cooper, Bruce Clement (Ed), "The Classic Western American Railroad Routes". New York: Chartwell Books/Worth Press, 2010. ; ; BINC: 3099794. Duran, Xavier, "The First U.S. Transcontinental Railroad: Expected Profits and Government Intervention," Journal of Economic History, 73 (March 2013), 177–200. White, Richard. Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America (2010) Willumson, Glenn. Iron Muse: Photographing the Transcontinental Railroad (University of California Press; 2013) 242 pages; studies the production, distribution, and publication of images of the railroad in the 19th and early 20th centuries. External links For maps and railroad pictures of this era shortly after the advent of photography see: Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum CPRR Railroad Map collection/museum 1871 CPRR & UPRR Overland Railroad Map "Map of the Central Pacific Railroad and its Connections" published in the California Mail Bag San Francisco News Letter and California Advertiser, Vol. 1, No. 4, Oct–Nov. 1871. accessed May 1, 2013. Union Pacific Railroad picture Museum Excursion to the 100th Meridian – 1866 accessed March 1, 2013. The Pacific Tourist Williams, Henry T.; published by Adams & Bishop, New York, 1881 ed. Gives insights to travel in the late 1880s on the transcontinental railroad. "I Hear the Locomotives: The Impact of the Transcontinental Railroad" Golden Spike National Historical Park in Utah Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum Union Pacific Railroad History The Transcontinental Railroad Pacific Railway Act and related resources at the Library of Congress Chinese-American Contribution to transcontinental railroad Linda Hall Library's Transcontinental Railroad educational site with free, full-text access to 19th century American railroad periodicals Newspaper articles and clippings about the Transcontinental Railroad at Newspapers.com "Transcontinental