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	Central Pacific Railroad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		June 23, 1870: Central Pacific is consolidated with the Western Pacific and San Francisco Bay Railroad Co.
		August 22, 1870: Central Pacific Railroad Co. is consolidated with the California and Oregon; San Francisco, Oakland and Alameda; and San Joaquin Valley Railroad; to form the "Central Pacific Railroad Co.", a new corporation.
		June 29, 1899: Central Pacific is reorganized as the "Central Pacific Railway".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Central_Pacific_Railroad (607 words)

	LearnCalifornia.org - Central Pacific Railroad
		The winter of 1866-67 was one of the harshest on record, and caught the crews of the railroad in the midst of drilling eleven tunnels at the highest elevations.
		The Union Pacific was to receive the same land grants and government bond loans as the Central Pacific, but got off to a much slower start than the CP because of the Civil War raging literally in its backyard.
		Completing the Pacific railroad (it wouldn't be commonly called the "transcontinental railroad" for another year or two) had the same effect on the popular imagination as would man's walking on the moon one hundred years and a couple of months later.
	www.learncalifornia.org /doc.asp?ID=112 (5790 words)

	Central Pacific Railroad, Promontory, Summit Utah, Sierra Mountains, Steam Engine
		The dream of a Transcontinental Railroad led Theodore Judah and Doc Strong in the back of a drugstore to draw up the articles of incorporation in the fall of 1860 and thus the Central Pacific Railroad was born.
		The catalyst of the Transcontinental Railroad was the passage of the Pacific Railroad Act in 1862.
		It was not until the Central Pacific Railroad hired a chemist to manufacture nitroglycerin on the spot that progress moved on.
	www.linecamp.com /museums/americanwest/western_clubs/central_pacific_railroad/central_pacific_railroad.html (922 words)

	Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
		The first transcontinental railroad was completed when the rails of the Union Pacific, reaching westward from Omaha, Nebraska, and those of the Central Pacific Railroad, reaching eastward from Sacramento, California were joined, completing the coast-to-coast connection.
		The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California was organized on June 28, 1861 by a group of Sacramento merchants known later as the "Big Four" (Collis P.
		In February, 1869, Clement was appointed as one of four members of the Special U.S. Pacific Railroad Commission to inspect and approve the railroad’s location and construction and help to determine the very sticky issue of where the CPRR and UPRR would finally meet.
	cprr.org /Museum/index.html (4147 words)

	American Experience \| Transcontinental Railroad \| People & Events
		When Leland Stanford was elected governor of California in 1862, he promised in his inaugural address to protect the state from "the dregs of Asia." Stanford, at least, would change his tune.
		Railroad work was hard, and management was chaotic, leading to a high attrition rate.
		In keeping with prejudices of the day, some Central Pacific officials believed that Irishmen were inclined to spend their wages on liquor, and that the Chinese were also unreliable.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/tcrr/peopleevents/p_cprr.html (872 words)

	History of the Transcontinental Railroad
		The history of this great railroad goes back to the time when the first steam locomotives were moving on the first tracks in the nation.
		The first convention for the planning of the Pacific Railroad (as this first transcontinental railroad was called) was held in 1838 by John Plumbe.
		Pacific Railroad bills that proposed to grant lands, subsidies, and even as much as 90 million dollars towards the construction of this railroad had been periodically introduced in Congress since the 1840's.
	bushong.net /dawn/about/college/ids100/history.shtml (1297 words)

	Central Pacific Railroad
		The Central Pacific was chartered by Congress to construct a portion of the first transcontinental line, starting in Sacramento and proceeding eastward.
		The Central Pacific was the project of two of the great railroad barons of the day, Leland Stanford and Collis P. Huntington.
		While the Central Pacific lost out in the race to construct the most mileage, it was an immediate financial success; lands received in government grants were sold to ready buyers, which provided sufficient income to cover construction costs.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h869.html (198 words)

	California State Railroad Museum Foundation - Central Pacific Railroad No. 1 Gov. Stanford
		Stanford had the distinction of pulling the Central Pacific's first excursion train, first revenue freight train (March 25, 1864), and first scheduled passenger train (April 15, 1864).
		From 1873 until its retirement in 1895, the locomotive served as a switcher and fire engine (outfitted with a water pump and hose to extinguish small fires along the track) in the Sacramento area.
		In May 1963 the locomotive was loaned to the Pacific Coast Chapter of the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society for inclusion in its historic railroad equipment collection.
	www.csrmf.org /doc.asp?ID=158 (350 words)

	Central Pacific Railroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Railroad officials have declined to talk about pending court...
		Union Pacific Railroad controls the 64.3-acre parcel, and train tracks crisscross it.
		Central Avenue bisects the land, while Tracy Boulevard borders it on the...
	www.wikiverse.org /central-pacific-railroad (191 words)

	California State Railroad Museum Foundation - Central Pacific Railroad Freight Depot
		The original wood frame Central Pacific Railroad Freight Depot was constructed along the Sacramento River, fronting on Front Street between J and K Streets, in the mid-1860s.
		In 1876 the Central Pacific Railroad Freight Depot was a major freight station on the transcontinental railroad.
		The Central Pacific Railroad Freight Depot was reconstructed in 1986, and is presently used as the passenger station for the California State Railroad Museum's excursion Train Rides, operated by the Sacramento Southern Railroad.
	www.csrmf.org /doc.asp?id=225 (258 words)

	Central Pacific Railroad -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		American railroad company founded in 1861 by a group of California merchants known later as the “Big Four” (Collis P. Huntington, Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker); they are best remembered for having built part of the first American transcontinental rail line.
		The most commonly accepted definition of the Pacific Coast is largely a political one: it defines the region as comprising the U.S. states of...
		Railroads were born in England, a country of dense population, short distances, and large financial resources.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9022083 (957 words)

	Leung: Chinese Americans Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Central Pacific railroad was built from the West, and The Union Pacific Railroad was built from the East.
		The Central Pacific was founded by a brilliant young civil engineer named Theodore Judah and The Union Pacific was ran by Thomas C. Durant.
		On the other hand, both railroads of the two companies that were not associated to connected in the construction of the railroad.
	www.sfusd.k12.ca.us /schwww/sch405/IUP/rail.html (1840 words)

	Golden Spike National Historic Site - OutdoorPlaces.Com
		On May 10, 1869 the Central Pacific Railroad, building east from Sacramento, California, and the Union Pacific Railroad building west from Omaha, Nebraska met in a symbolic ceremony of engineering achievement.
		The Central Pacific Railroad had to rely on every piece of equipment, every spike, even every engine making a 15,000-mile journey by ship from the east coast around Cape Horn.
		Native Americans who saw the railroad as a great threat and encroachment on their land constantly harassed the Union Pacific Railroad heading west.
	www.outdoorplaces.com /Destination/USNP/utgolspi (1576 words)

	The American Experience/The Iron Road/About the Program
		Many believed that a railroad to the Pacific would be the key to westward expansion and the future of the country.
		The Central Pacific was founded by Theodore Judah, a brilliant young civil engineer who found a way to lay tracks across the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, the traditional stumbling block to a transcontinental railroad.
		The real heroes of the railroad, however, were the 20,000 men who labored to build the iron road with their bare hands.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/iron (636 words)

	Transcontinental, Railroad, Golden Spike, Promontory Summit, Railway Act
		Pacific Railway Act ensured the transcontinental railroad 's loans of either $16,000 on the plains, $32,000 in the Great Basin and $48,000 through the mountainous terrain for each mile of track laid.
		The Transcontinental Railroad 's got off to a slow start due to the Civil War and lack of investors but from year 1866 the race was on.
		Transcontinental Railroad passenger train service began five days later from Omaha with the trip costing $111 plush, first class and scheduled to take 4 days, 4 hours and 40 minutes, second class was $80 with a few lesser defined amenities and the raw immigrant class of $40 with no amenities.
	www.linecamp.com /museums/americanwest/western_clubs/transcontinental_railroad/transcontinental_railroad.html (785 words)

	Review of Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
		It appears to be thorough in its coverage of photographic images of the building of the Central Pacific Railroad and expands to include related information on the transcontinental railroad to place the photos in context with transcribed and rekeyed essays.
		Authority/Bias: The “Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum” is a labor of love by Bruce Clement Cooper, the great, great grandson of Lewis Metzler Clement, the chief assistant engineer for the Central Pacific Railroad.
		Cooper appears to be driven by three factors: a fascination with the Central Pacific Railroad history, concern for theft of the images on the site, and generating revenue.
	www.publichistory.org /reviews/View_Review.asp?DBID=72 (1448 words)

	Transcontinental Railroad - Driving the Last Spike - 1869
		The connection of the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific bridged the 2000 miles to the Missouri River, and the four to six months time taken by the overland pioneers was reduced to six days.
		At once the Pacific States were transformed, and Western life gradually caught up with the life and aspirations of the East.
		This is Central Pacific locomotive No. 1, the first engine to be placed in construction service on the western end of the transcontinental railroad.
	www.sfmuseum.org /hist1/rail.html (554 words)

	Theodore Judah - "A Practical Plan for Building the Pacific Railroad" - 1857
		When the friends of the Pacific Railroad can approach a capitalist and answer all these questions, they may begin to hope for a realization of their wishes.
		It is believed that the subject of the Pacific Railroad is pretty well understood throughout the United States, and it is deservedly popular.
		This done and, at the expiration of two years, we have 400 miles of the Pacific Railroad completed, the gap narrowed up to 1,600 miles, and the Road so completed that the material for construction of the next divisions can be carried out over it.
	www.sfmuseum.org /hist4/practical.html (6227 words)

	Central Pacific Railroad \| Samizdata.net
		But it did show that although the Central Pacific Railroad were ruthless they were not the killers (of Indians and Whites) that the Union Pacific were.
		Furthermore it was clear that the Central Pacific overcame vast physical obstructions to the building of a railroad and that its people (White and Chinese) showed creative thought and vast physical effort in overcoming these obstructions.
		In particular, from the statements of the men running the Central Pacific, it was quite clear they were not the anti-chinese racists I'd always had the impression they were.
	www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/004643.html (959 words)

	Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum - Transcontinental Railroad
		The idea for a transcontinental railroad "to shrink the continent and change the whole world" was first proposed by men of imagination in 1830.
		The roadbed was blasted out of the solid rock mountainside in the fall of 1865 by lowering Chinese workers (also known as "Celestials" after the "Celestial Kingdom" as these tireless workers referred to their homeland) on ropes down the sheer cliff face.
		Still it remains one of the best known of all the labors on the Central Pacific, mainly because, unlike the work in the tunnel, it makes for a spectacular diorama.
	cprr.org (1165 words)

	Trestle on Central Pacific Railroad (Getty Museum) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Although the load-bearing construction of the trestle is a central part of this image, Carleton Watkins trimmed many inches off this picture's edges in an attempt to focus attention on the figures rather than the landscape.
		In the mid-1800s, the railroads turned to Chinese and Irish laborers to perform the dangerous work of constructing bridges and lying track in rugged deserts and mountainous terrain.
		The Central Pacific Railroad recruited many of its Chinese laborers from farms in southern China.
	www.getty.edu /art/collections/objects/o107728.html (143 words)

	Karen's Books - New Arrivals
		Analyzing the origins, growth, and dismantling of the Iowa Central Railway, which crossed the state from Ackley to Zearing and Mason City to Marshalltown, the author examines how this unremarkable railway was an example of the life cycle of the American railroad industry.
		A comprehensive examination of railroads in Iowa from the iron horse to the present.
		The advent of the railroads forged the interworkings of a nation, and especially the City of Toledo due to its location on the harbor.
	www.karensbooks.com /cgi-bin/shop/karenscart.cgi?func=newArrivals (8093 words)

	UP: Central Oregon & Pacific Railroad, Inc. CORP #157
		The main line from Eugene to Black Butte was built mostly by the Oregon and California Railroad, which built south from Eugene starting in the 1870’s.
		The Coos Bay (Coquille) branch was built by an SP affiliate, the Willamette Pacific, after 1910.
		SP sold the majority of the lines and leased the remainder to RailTex on December 31, 1994.
	www.uprr.com /customers/shortline/lines/corp.shtml (169 words)

	Central Pacific Railroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Central Pacific Railroad (later to become the Southern Pacific Railroad) was planned by Theodore Judah and financed mostly through the efforts " The Big Four " (who also called themselves The Associates) who were Sacramento California businessmen Leland Stanford Collis Huntington Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins.
		Ambrose departs from his usual subject (World Wars) in order to write a superb book describing the heroic efforts made to complete America's transcontinental railroad--a project which, amazingly, occurred during the middle of our Civil War.Ambrose describ...
		Iron Horses to Promontory Railroad: Central Pacific-Union Pacific
	www.freeglossary.com /Central_Pacific (324 words)

	Puget Sound & Pacific Railroad
		Puget Sound and Pacific 1004 was purchased by the Illinios Central in January, 1956 and operated as number 9149.
		Willamette and Pacific 1201 is an EMD SW1200 that was leased for a short period.
		Willamette and Pacific 1203 is an EMD SW1200 that was leased for a short period.
	www.cs.utk.edu /~davison/psp (999 words)

	Central Pacific Railroad Across Nevada
		1868, from atop the sand hill on the east side of the railroad grade.
		Specifically I wondered about the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad as it progressed across Nevada, circa 1868-1869.
		Hiking along the abandoned railroad grade, across Nevada, opened new opportunities; viewing artifacts in place, sometimes next to the grade or several feet away, gave me enough encouragement to venture to the next photo location.
	www.cpran.com (967 words)

	Union Pacific Railroad
		The Union Pacific was chartered by Congress to construct a portion of the first transcontinental line, starting in Omaha and proceeding westward.
		The Union Pacific was forced into receivership during the depression of the 1890s, but was brought back to prominence by E.H. Harriman.
		Memorabilia related to Union Pacific Railroad is at auction on eBay.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h868.html (195 words)

	Central Pacific Railroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It was created to build the Transcontinental Railroad.
		The story is told by the young boys as they take us...
		Rhoda Blumberg brings in the many aspects, peoples, andcultures involved in building the transcontinental railroad, andconsiders it from many view points.
	www.freeglossary.com /Central_Pacific_Railroad (324 words)

	Theodore Judah initiator of the Central Pacific Railroad
		Theodore Judah initiator of the Central Pacific Railroad
		f one man deserved the title of father of the first transcontinental railroad in America, besides Asa Whitney, it would certainly be Theodore Dehone Judah (1826-1863).
		He did probably more than any other man for the survey, construction and promotion of the project, notably as chief engineer of the Central Pacific Railroad.
	www.raken.com /american_wealth/railroad_barons/central_pacific1.asp (142 words)

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