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.
Central Pacific railroad. These two railroad companies built the first transcontinental railroad, a Railroad company that built 1,086 miles of railroad along a north central route westward from Omaha and linked up with the Central pacific, completed in 1869.ranscontinental railroad. Completed in 1869 at Promontory, Utah, it linked the eastern railroad system with California's railroad system, revolutionizing transportation in the west, A railroad that stretches across a continent from coast to coast.