Nothing like it in the world gives the account of an unprecedented feat of engineering vision and courage it is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad the investors who risked their businesses and money the enlightened politicians who understood its importance the engineers and surveyors who risked and sometimes lost their lives and the irish and chinese immigrants the defeated confederate soldiers and the other laborers who did the backbreaking and . Nothing like it in the world the men who built the transcontinental railroad 1863 1869 stephen e ambrose in this account of an unprecedented feat of engineering vision and courage stephen e ambrose offers a historical successor to his universally acclaimed undaunted courage which recounted the explorations of the west by lewis and clark. Nothing like it in the world is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad the investors who risked their businesses and money the enlightened politicians who understood its. Nothing like it in the world is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad the investors who risked their businesses and money the enlightened politicians who understood its. Nothing like this great work had ever been seen in the world when the golden spike was driven in promontory peak utah in 1869 as the central pacific and the union pacific tracks were joined this is the story of the brave men the famous and the unheralded ordinary men doing the extraordinary who accomplished the spectacular feat that made the continent into a nation