4th & 5th Grade
CSRM Digital Interpretive Program
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The nation’s first transcontinental railroad made travel to California easier and safer than ever before. The railroad encouraged western settlement and travel for pleasure.
Students participate in five different interactive stations.
Station 1: Introduction
Station 2: Travelers tell why they are moving to California.
Station 3: A Pullman Porter explains how he made travel more comfortable for the passengers on his car.
Station 4: Students listen to the travel experiences of a first-class traveler (American author, Sarah Chauncey Woolsey) and a third-class traveler (Novelist, Robert Louis Stevenson).
Station 5: Tour the Central Pacific Passenger Station and ride the train!
This program was formerly called The Emigrant Train Program.