Summary and credits are taken from the 1925 silent version, not the later eleven-reel, 10,424-foot sound version.
       Opening title card offers the following information: "Accurate and faithful in every particular of fact and atmosphere is this pictorial history of the building of the first transcontinental railroad." The film is dedicated "To the ever-living memory of Abraham Lincoln, the Builder--and of those dauntless engrinners and toilers who fulfilled his dream of a greater Nation." Title cards present the Forward: "During the Civil War the United States was divided not only into North and South--but also into East and West,by a seemingly impassable barrier of prairie, desert and mountain. More than to any other man, the Nation owes gratitude to Abraham Lincoln, whose vision and resolution held the North and the South while moulding with blood and with iron the East and the West."
       The working titles of this film were The Trans-Continental Railroad, The Transcontinental Railroad, and The Iron Trail.
       The Feb 1924 AMCin noted that the company was filming on location in Wadsworth, NV.
       The cast was also said to include "a regiment of U. S. troops and cavalry; 3,000 railway workmen; 1,000 Chinese laborers; 800 Pawnee, Sioux, and Cheyenne Indians; 2,800 horses; 1,300 buffalo; 10,000 Texas steers."
       Fox records indicate that Charles Kenyon may have been completely responsible for both scenario and story. ...