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Central Pacific Railroad |
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Central Pacific RailroadU.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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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. Its predecessor company had pounded in the golden spike in Promontory, Utah, in 1869 with the Central Pacific railroad, creating the first transcontinental line. 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. |
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