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the Next Moon Shot Have you ever heard the term moonshot Think of a   moonshot  as a complex largescale objective that can be accomplished only when teams abandon business as usual . It is built around the core prin ciples of creating stakeholder value through reliability in its products and dependability in its relationships Th e company has four manufacturing units in India three in Southern Africa and one in the Netherlands A Coronis. Seated Apollo pours the libation from a bowl, Left a raven , c. 480 BC., Delphi Museum 8140, . Pistoxenos. Painter?. Author : ADAM ELSHEIMER. Date :1607-08. Technique :Oil on copper, 12,6 x 17,4 cm. Railroads had already transformed life in the East, but at the end of the Civil War railroad tracks still stopped at the Missouri River. For a quarter of a century, men had dreamed of building a line from coast to coast. Now they would attempt to lay 1,775 miles of track from Omaha to Sacramento. . A presentation created for Lesson 3: Efficient Railroad Maintenance of the Exploring Transportation Maintenance Module. So what is Railroad Maintenance?. Railways are made up of complex mechanical and electrical systems and there are hundreds of thousands of moving parts. If a railway service is to be reliable, the equipment must be kept in good working order and regular maintenance is the essential ingredient to achieve this. A railway will not survive for long as a viable operation if it is allowed to deteriorate because of lack of maintenance. Although maintenance is expensive, it will become more expensive to replace the failing equipment early in its life because maintenance has been neglected.. The Growth of Railroads. Before the Civil War, most of the railroad track in America had been built in the Eastern USA, especially in the Northeast.. Gold was discovered in the West and people slowly began migrating westward.. Mr. Babcock. 7. th. Grade Social Studies. Westward Expansion and the Mining Booms. A New Gold and Silver Rush. After the gold rush of the 1840s and 1850s came to an end, prospectors began looking in new locations across the West. Linking East and West. pages 222-226. EQ: How did the telegraph helped Americans communicate? Explain how the transcontinental railroad was built and its effects on the nation?. Vocabulary Preview. Transcontinental: going across a continent. Linking East and West. pages 222-226. EQ: How did the telegraph helped Americans communicate? Explain how the transcontinental railroad was built and its effects on the nation?. Vocabulary Preview. Transcontinental: going across a continent. Stagecoach lines. Transcontinental railroad. 2. 1835 advertisement for 5-hour travel between Baltimore, MD, and Washington D.C. . Early long-distance travel was usually by stagecoach. It could be very unpleasant in poor weather, with careless drivers, and on muddy and bumpy roads.. . a. Explain the impact of the railroads on other industries, such as steel, and on the organization of big business.. The railroad companies contributed to the development of the West by selling low-cost parcels of their western land for farming. . Settlement, Pony Express, the Telegraph, & the Railroad. Objective for Unit & Lesson:. Unit Objective: Students will understand the political and social development of Utah in the late 19. th. Remember what we discussed in 2.1b? About Native Americans?. ***During and after the . Civil War the . US entered a period of rapid economic growth. ****We expanded out West very rapidly. ***Growth . What is a Community? A community may be big or small. It is a group of people living in the same place that often have something in common. A community may center around a town or an industry. Others are created around ethnicity or religion. Your family, school, neighborhood, town, and even your state are different types of communities. Native American Culture in Crisis. The Growth of the Cattle Industry. Settling on the Great Plains. Farmers & the Populist Movement. Native American Culture in Crisis. “Between the 1850s & 1890, settlers flocked to the West in search of .