The statement that best explains why the transcontinental railrold took several years to build is digging through the mountains was very difficult, and the long winters hampered workers' ability to make progress. The foothills of Sierra Nevada, the winter snowtorms, shortage of reliable labor and increasing need for tunneling hampered the progress as they went higher in the mountains.
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Explanation:
The first reason the Trans-Continental Railroad was important was because goods could now reach California from the Eastern part of our country. It also helped to open up unoccupied regions of our country that nobody was settled in. It was also a lot safer and faster to travel for people across country then by wagon train. The building of the railroad also gave the economy a boost in our country because people had to build theses railroads so people were now working.
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