Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad is a book written by David Haward Bain, published in 2000.

Booknotes interview with David Howard Bain on Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad, March 5, 2000.

The building of the Pacific railroad is an epic story, often recounted but never so thoroughly, authoritatively and engagingly as in "Empire Express."

"Empire Express" is well researched, well written, refreshingly revisionist where the sources indicate, illustrated by well-chosen photographs and studded with beautiful topographical maps indispensable to the construction story.

In one sense, then, "The Old Iron Road" is a retelling of "Empire Express" from a personal angle.

Writing a big book - and, just short of 800 pages, "Empire Express" is very big - requires a tunnel vision that gets narrower and narrower as time passes.

Obviously she hasn't put "Empire Express" on her bookshelf yet.

It is "Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad," not "The Empire Express."

Nearby, Deer Valley, which will also be host to the Games, has begun work on a day lodge at the base of the Empire Express and Ruby chairlifts.

The epic story of the railroad's construction between 1863 and 1869 has been told time and again, most recently in David Haward Bain's monumental "Empire Express" (1999).