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 On May 10, 1869, a golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah, signaling the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States. 2  The transcontinental railroad had long been a dream for people living in the American West. While there was a large network of railways built in the Eastern part of the country in the 1830s and â40s, there were few in the West and none that connected with Eastern lines.