Jeff, I also watched it last night, partly being really curious, partly thanks to a bug that had me down. Since I'm not that big on TV I watched it on my old 17 or what ever CRT TV in my workshop, the one wife and kids got me for Christmas about 15 years ago. (I think it was a Black Friday special)
Trust me, I know a lot are going to complain/whine about the guns in it, that's OK, but I'm guessing those that do that's about how far their knowledge of history really goes, I saw some much bigger flaws that the guns.
As for the TV network and their self proclaimed "experts" I must say, one it was much better than sending Little Joe to go fetch the 92 Winny with the forearm removed and the receiver spray painted gold.
The other, coment on that, is it's TV, you can have another pair of those experts free if you just pay shipping and handling.
As for the PC of it, see the UP building started from Omaha, not Council Bluff Iowa, no sense in building a couple miles of track that ended in the bluffs east of town or at the river which would have no bridge for years and was still a ways off from a connection to the east.
Can't figure out why they were blasting on fairly level ground with no rock.
Have no idea why the surveyer and his wife were working on that steep hill since they built it on the flat going up creek drainage's in Nebraska, remember it all had to be built on a 1% grade, you went around hills not over them.
Why neither boss caught that the workers were using pickaxes on already soft and dug up soil is beyond me, it also appeared they'd dug the grade far below the 1% or less there.
I would like to know how the Congressman got 50,000 acres to speculate on that Durant was able to scare him saying he'd go around it and miss it.
For a moment I thought the Blacks were going to sing Camptown Races and somebody was gonna get whacked with a shovel.
OH, the term "Hell On Wheels" wasn't used till the winter 0f 1865-1866 when they were stopped near North Platte Nebraska.
Beyond that, since I don't expect anything like that to be anywhere near historically correct. (Yeah right, folks complain the pilot was slow when it's not PC
) I thought it was one of the best thing I've seen come out on the networks for an awful long time. But that's like saying one of our locally owned steakhouses that sell prime Nebraska beef is better than McDonalds or Burger King.
I left the DVR set up to record the series or at least for now I did.
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