First transcontinental railroad

Quality:

First Transcontinental Railroad - first railroad in the United States to reach the Pacific coast from the eastern states. Article “First transcontinental railroad” in English Wikipedia has 80.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 193 references and 38 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.98 points.

This article has the best quality in Hungarian Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2026 the article “First transcontinental railroad” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “First transcontinental railroad”, its content was written by 782 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1334 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1488 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3188 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #395 in October 2002
• Global: #1054 in May 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #6397 in October 2009
• Global: #14568 in October 2009

There are 24 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Hungarian (hu) Első transzkontinentális vasútvonal		93.8652
2	English (en) First transcontinental railroad		80.8163
3	Finnish (fi) Ensimmäinen mantereen ylittävä rautatie		64.9781
4	Chinese (zh) 第一條橫貫大陸鐵路		61.7446
5	French (fr) Premier chemin de fer transcontinental		38.8152
6	Spanish (es) Primer ferrocarril transcontinental de Estados Unidos		33.6102
7	Malay (ms) Landasan Rentas Benua Pertama		32.6366
8	Swedish (sv) Transamerikanska järnvägen		31.8135
9	German (de) First Transcontinental Railroad		31.7868
10	Catalan (ca) Primer ferrocarril transcontinental dels Estats Units		31.5735

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) First transcontinental railroad		9 060 848
2	Spanish (es) Primer ferrocarril transcontinental de Estados Unidos		523 257
3	Russian (ru) Первая трансконтинентальная железная дорога США		372 376
4	French (fr) Premier chemin de fer transcontinental		315 148
5	Chinese (zh) 第一條橫貫大陸鐵路		158 051
6	Italian (it) First Transcontinental Railroad		145 879
7	Japanese (ja) 最初の大陸横断鉄道		116 857
8	German (de) First Transcontinental Railroad		112 303
9	Polish (pl) Pierwsza Kolej Transkontynentalna		84 760
10	Portuguese (pt) Primeira Ferrovia Transcontinental		83 515

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) First transcontinental railroad		21 383
2	Russian (ru) Первая трансконтинентальная железная дорога США		956
3	Chinese (zh) 第一條橫貫大陸鐵路		922
4	German (de) First Transcontinental Railroad		760
5	Japanese (ja) 最初の大陸横断鉄道		695
6	Spanish (es) Primer ferrocarril transcontinental de Estados Unidos		664
7	French (fr) Premier chemin de fer transcontinental		601
8	Polish (pl) Pierwsza Kolej Transkontynentalna		299
9	Italian (it) First Transcontinental Railroad		287
10	Norwegian (no) Den transamerikanske jernbanen		247

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) First transcontinental railroad		782
2	French (fr) Premier chemin de fer transcontinental		96
3	Italian (it) First Transcontinental Railroad		66
4	Dutch (nl) Transcontinental Railroad		55
5	Russian (ru) Первая трансконтинентальная железная дорога США		46
6	Japanese (ja) 最初の大陸横断鉄道		45
7	Spanish (es) Primer ferrocarril transcontinental de Estados Unidos		35
8	German (de) First Transcontinental Railroad		28
9	Chinese (zh) 第一條橫貫大陸鐵路		26
10	Swedish (sv) Transamerikanska järnvägen		23

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) أول سكة حديدية ممتدة عبر القارة		2
2	German (de) First Transcontinental Railroad		2
3	English (en) First transcontinental railroad		1
4	Hungarian (hu) Első transzkontinentális vasútvonal		1
5	Belarusian (be) Першая транскантынентальная чыгунка		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Първа трансконтинентална железница		0
7	Catalan (ca) Primer ferrocarril transcontinental dels Estats Units		0
8	Greek (el) Πρώτος διηπειρωτικός σιδηρόδρομος		0
9	Spanish (es) Primer ferrocarril transcontinental de Estados Unidos		0
10	Persian (fa) اولین راه‌آهن میان‌قاره‌ای		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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