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Which development replaced wagon trails as the quickest way for settlers to travel to the west after the civil war?

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The Transcontinental Railroad is the development replaced wagon trails as the quickest way for settlers to journey to the west after the Civil battle. A transcontinental railroad is a contiguous community of railroad trackage that crosses a continental land mass with terminals at one of a kind oceans or continental borders. The finishing touch of the transcontinental railroad enabled the Yankee conquest and settlement of the West.
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