A best interest plea means that  a defendant does not admit guilt to any offense, but agrees that a guilty plea is in his best interest under the circumstances. The defendant is sentenced, while still able to disagree with the prosecutor's description of events.
The transcontinental railroad began in Omaha, Nebraska and ended in Sacramento, California. Two companies built the railroad. The Union Pacific Railroad company began laying track from Omaha to the west while the Central Pacific Railroad company headed east from Sacramento. They both met at the middle in Promontory, Utah on May 10, 1869.
1 The first Eurasian transcontinental railroad was the Trans-Siberian railway (with connecting lines in Europe), completed in 1905 which connects Moscow with Vladivostok on the Pacific coast. 2  There are two connections from this line to China. 3  It is the world's longest rail line at 9,289 km (5,772 mi) long.he world's First Transcontinental Railroad was built between 1863 and 1869 to join the eastern and western halves of the United States. Begun just before the American Civil War, its construction was considered to be one of the greatest American technological feats of the 19th century.