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Central Pacific Railroad

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Central Pacific Railroad

U.S. railroad company founded in 1861 by a group of California merchants including Mark Hopkins and Leland Stanford. It was built with land grants and subsidies from the Pacific Railway Act (1862); thousands of Chinese labourers were hired to build it. Its tracks joined with those of the Union Pacific on May 10, 1869, in Promontory, Utah, forming North America's first transcontinental railroad. From 1884 it was leased to the Southern Pacific Co., with which it merged in 1959.
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American Orient Express and Amtrak California Zephyr passenger trains make their way along that original route, as charted by Central Pacific Railroad founder Theodore Judah.
ON TRACK WITH RAILROAD HISTORY GET EXTRA PERSPECTIVE ON BEGINNINGS OF ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Its predecessor company had pounded in the golden spike in Promontory, Utah, in 1869 with the Central Pacific railroad, creating the first transcontinental line.
Back on track: how an old-fashioned Kansan with railroading in his ... by Galuszka, Peter / Chief Executive (U.S.)
The same month in 1860 that Abraham Lincoln was elected President, civil engineer Theodore Judah surveyed a Sacramento, California, street for what would become the Central Pacific Railroad.
The muscle that built the rail: to complete the transcontinental ... by McCollum, Sean / New York Times Upfront
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