When the Kansas Pacific Railway was completed between Kansas City, Missouri, and Denver, Colorado, on August 15,1870, a branch line from Denver to a junction in Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, was already in operation. This made the railroad the first true transcontinental railroad to carry passengers from coast to coast without a ferry crossing because of the Hannibal Bridge (above) across the Missouri River in Kansas City, which was
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