<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">New York to Los Angeles in an unheard-of 48 hours! And what a way to go—luxuriously appointed planes, meals served aloft, and a window seat for every passenger</span> </span></p>
<p>Completed 150 years ago this month, the railroad's construction was one of the great dramas in American history, and led to a notorious scandal.</p>
