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	Pacific Railroad Act - Transcontiental Railroad and Land Grants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		AN ACT to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri river to the Pacific ocean, and to secure to the government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes.
		AN ACT to establish the gauge of the Pacific railroad and its branches.
		AN ACT to authorize the transfer of lands granted to the Union Pacific Railroad Company, Eastern Division, between Denver and the point of its junction with the Union Pacific railroad, to the Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company, and to expedite the completion of railroads to Denver, in the Territory of Colorado.
	cprr.org /Museum/Pacific_Railroad_Acts.html (7266 words)

	PBS - THE WEST - The Pacific Railway Act (1862)
		An Act to aid in the Construction of a Railroad and Telegraph Line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean.
		The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California are hereby authorized to construct a railroad and telegraph line from the Pacific coast...
		10...And the Central Pacific Railroad Company of California after completing its road across said State, is authorized to continue the construction of said railroad and telegraph through the Territories of the United States to the Missouri River...
	www.pbs.org /weta/thewest/resources/archives/five/railact.htm (551 words)

	History Page
		This not only aided the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific in raising the necessary funds, it eventually resulted in a railroad construction competition that was characterized by unfettered greed, and memorialized by more than 200 miles of parallel grading.
		Congress passed the Pacific Railroad Act of 1864 with the intent of providing further means whereby the two companies might build capital.
		The act continued the practice of subsidy bonds, and allowed each company to issue its own bonds to match those of the government, effectively doubling the amount of money that could be raised.
	www.nps.gov /gosp/history/race.html (1152 words)

	RAILROADS IN BUFFALO COUNTY
		Acting upon this, Sydenham, who had been one of the original planners of the Kearney Junction townsite, entered a claim on a tract of government land and laid out a town in 1872 which he called Centoria.
		Since neither the Union Pacific nor the Burlington could be interested in building such a branch line, the local group initiated plans for a new railroad up the Wood River valley from Kearney, with a goal of running it all the way to the Black Hills.
		Stations located in the county as a result of this branch line were Glenwood, Riverdale, Amherst, Watertown and Miller, but the new railroad resulted in the death of the early settlements of Greendale and Stanley, and the moving of the town of Armada one mile south to the now townsite of Miller on the railroad.
	bchs.kearney.net /BTales_197805.htm (1422 words)

	Pacific Railway Act: Primary Documents of American History (Virtual Programs & Services, Library of Congress)
		The Senate passed the Pacific Railway Act on June, 20, 1862, by a vote of 35 to 5.
		The House of Representatives passed this act on June 24, 1862, by a vote of 104 to 21.
		Officials and workers of the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific railways met on Promontory Summit, in Utah Territory to drive in the Golden Spike on May 10, 1869.
	www.loc.gov /rr/program/bib/ourdocs/PacificRail.html (602 words)

	California State Railroad Museum Foundation - Rails to the Pacific
		Almost as soon as the railroad demonstrated its practicality in the mid-1830s, far-thinking men realized that it would be the tool Americans used to pry open the continent and extract wealth from mines, factories, and fields.
		Wherever the railroad ran would profoundly affect the balance of slave and free states, and that stalled the project for a decade.
		New steamships and the completion of a railroad across the Isthmus of Panama had improved the journey by sea, and the frontier pushing steadily west from the Mississippi Valley was beginning to meet expansion eastward from California.
	www.csrmf.org /doc.asp?id=345 (999 words)

	First Transcontinental Railroad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Authorized by the Pacific Railway Act of 1862 and heavily backed by the federal government, it was the culmination of a decades-long movement to build such a line and was one of the crowning achievements of the presidency of Abraham Lincoln, completed four years after his death.
		In September 1859 Judah was chosen to be the accredited lobbyist for the Pacific Railroad Convention.
		According the Pacific Railroad Act the spurned railroads were to offer feeder routes to the new Union Pacific at or near the symbolic 100th meridian in western Kansas and Nebraska.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/First_Transcontinental_Railroad (4179 words)

	Building the Transcontinental Railroad
		With the outbreak of the Civil War Congress quickly passed the Pacific Railroad Act it called for the establishment of a new railroad, the Union Pacific, which would lay track westward from Omaha and the Central Pacific.
		Work on the Union Pacific began slowly, most of the activity was financial, with Mobile Credit, being created, which siphoned millions of dollars from the railroad.
		The Central Pacific's main obstacle was the terrain and the weather.
	www.multied.com /railroad/Trans.html (670 words)

	Union Pacific Land Grants
		The Act of 1864 provided for the increase of the land grant in the form of adding an additional ten mile strip of alternating sections of land outside of the one that had been provided by the Act of 1862.
		The location of the railroad was a large determining factor in the location of the cities and towns, and thus the distribution of the population in the west.
		It would have taken far longer for the west to develop had not the railroads been built, and the railroads would not have been built if they hadn't been given the different forms of government aid, so that their builders could see potential for a reasonable (some say extraordinary) profit to be made.
	utahrails.net /articles/up-land-grants.php (2141 words)

	Amistad National Recreation Area - The Southern Transcontinental Railroad (U.S. National Park Service)
		Railroads came into existence in Texas in 1851 with the formation of the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos, and Colorado Railway (Patterson 1980:8).
		Survey work for the proposed railroad route in the vicinity of the Pecos River was well under way by the summer of 1880.
		Captain Hood was in charge of the Southern Pacific survey and of engineering crews working between the mouth of the Devils River and the mouth of the Pecos at the Rio Grande.
	www.nps.gov /amis/historyculture/str.htm (1047 words)

	UP-Historical Overview: Building a Road
		For many, a railroad was considered the key to westward expansion and the future of the country.
		The Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 made construction of the transcontinental railroad possible.
		It designated tasks for two companies: the Central Pacific Railroad of California (CP) was to build eastward from Sacramento, and a new company called the Union Pacific (UP) was to build westward up the Platte River Valley from Omaha, Nebraska.
	www.uprr.com /aboutup/history/hist-ov2.shtml (333 words)

	Railroad Land Grants Explained
		The railroads were given the odd-numbered sections on each side of the railroad right-of-way.
		As critical as the transcontinental railroad was to the country, typical investors considered the project far too risky.
		And because the railroad was so absolutely critical to the United States, Congress revised the law in the middle of the Civil War.
	www.coxrail.com /land-grants.htm (1904 words)

	NPS Historical Handbook: Golden Spike
		The Railroad Act of 1862 threw the support of the United States Government behind the transcontinental railroad.
		It authorized the Union Pacific Railroad, the first corporation chartered by the National Government since the Second United States Bank, to build westward from the Missouri River to the California boundary or until it met the Central Pacific.
		The bond subsidy was fixed at $16,000 a mile east of the Rockies and west of the Sierras, $32,000 a mile between the mountain ranges, and $48,000 a mile in the mountains.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/hh/40/hh40d.htm (335 words)

	Andreas' History of the State of Nebraska - Railroads - Part 2
		The laws of Congress required that 100 miles of the Union Pacific Railroad, between the Missouri River and the 100th Meridian, be completed within three years after the filing of the company's assent to the organic law, filed June 27, 1863.
		It sees how the great railroad has peopled and developed the vast wilds of a continent; its influence upon the commercial, intellectual, social and material interests of the world come to it in sanguine but dimly comprehensive shades, and it is powerless to view the immensity and universality of the results accomplished.
		In March, 1872, when the bridge was completed, the Iowa railroads refused to run their trains through to Omaha or permit them to be run by any transfer company, insisting upon the delivery of freight and passengers on the eastern side of the river, where the same should be received by the Union Pacific.
	www.kancoll.org /books/andreas_ne/railroad/railroad-p2.html (4427 words)

	Union Pacific Corporation Stock and Picture Postcard
		Its railroad, basically comprising the Missouri Pacific, Chicago and North Western, Southern Pacific, and Union Pacific Railroads, is almost 150 years old.
		Union Pacific Railroad Chronological History The 1800s 1848--The first ten miles of the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad are completed, a direct predecessor of the Chicago & North Western.
		The predecessor of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad (Katy), is incorporated as the Union Pacific Railway Southern Branch.
	www.goantiques.com /detail,,79945.html (1221 words)

	Lesson: The Railroad Connected
		Understand the impact of the Transcontinental Railroad and the effect it placed on the settlers and settlements of the West.
		Across the continent, the snow sheds on the Central Pacific Railroad, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains: From Robert B. Honeyman, Jr.
		Copies of the Homestead Act of May 20, 1862 and the Pacific Railroad Act of July 1, 1862.
	www.siue.edu /EDUCATION/AAM/lesson/N_Wilhelm/railroad.htm (535 words)

	Railroads and the Affects They Had on the Civil War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		A railroad was needed to connect the east coast with the West.
		There was one “catch” in the program: railroads that accepted land grants had to provide transportation for government troops and goods, charging only one-half the normal fee.
		Railroad employment eventually began to improve with higher pay, working conditions, stricter safety standards, retirement funds, and shorter work hours.
	www.promotega.org /msc00017/railroads.htm (670 words)

	UP-History of the UP Logo: Early Shields
		Logos from this time forth became crisp and bold, are able to be reproduced in a variety of applications, and are used as a single identifying symbols that represent every aspect of the company.
		The shield was chosen as a symbol of strength, and a tie to the company's heritage to the Pacific Railroad Act.
		Though the single and double-line Union Pacific shields were used simultaneously beginning in 1888, the single-line version was more popular until railroad magnate Jay Gould's death in December 1892, after which the double-line version was used more frequently.
	www.uprr.com /aboutup/history/uplogo/logo02.shtml (701 words)

	Government Documents Library
		Railroads were given land grants throughout the west for rail development.
		The decline of the railroad as a primary mode of transportation began with the rise of the auto industry, most notably, an increased use of trucks to transport perishable goods.
		The railroad decided to cease operation on its route from Machens in St. Charles County to Sedalia in Pettis County in 1986.
	www.library.uiuc.edu /doc/exhibits/railroad.htm (558 words)

	Union Pacific Railroad
		The Union Pacific was chartered by Congress, through the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862, to construct a portion of the first transcontinental line, starting in Omaha and proceeding westward through the Platte River Valley.
		The Union Pacific was forced into receivership during the depression of the 1890s, but was brought back to prominence by E.H. Harriman.
		Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum HOME MAP INDEX Map of the Union Pacific Railroad and Connections, circa 1867.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h868.html (368 words)

	Pacific Railroads Act
		Congress in 1862 passed the Pacific Railroads Act, which set the framework for the construction of a central transcontinental route.
		The large land grants extended to the railroads were intended to be sold to settlers, which provided a means to pay for construction and repay the loans.
		railroad are hidden from view by dark sheds—I could not help wondering why the railroad officials do not take off or hinge a couple of boards along these interminable galleries, and give the passengers a view of the finest scenery on the route.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h867.html (347 words)

	Government Land Grants under the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
		The subject was considered in instructions bearing date September 12, 1862, for the government of the register and receiver, as submitted to the Secretary of the Interior, and approved by him on September 24, 1862.
		In view of the 3d and 7th sections of said act of July 1, 1862, it is held, however, that this office has not the power to lay open to ordinary sale or location the even numbered sections, without the further orders of Congress.
		A railroad, about six miles long, is projected from the San Joaquin, extending south towards the Mount Diablo, for the transportation of coal from the mines there designated as the Pittsburg, Union, and Eureka.
	www.cprr.org /Museum/Land_Office_1862.html (2080 words)

	Association of American Railroads - RailFanClub
		In order to reach the Pacific by rail and bring the Western lands into settlement and cultivation, the Act authorized two railroads to build the great line to the Pacific.
		The Central Pacific was to head east from Sacramento and the newly chartered Union Pacific would drive westward from the Missouri River.
		Since each railroad received 20 sections of land for each mile of track they laid, the great undertaking was transformed into a race.
	www.railfanclub.org /remwest.html (350 words)

	Introduction to the Transcontinental Railroad
		The idea of a railroad that spanned across the nation begun as early as the 1830s when the first steam locomotive had its first trial run.
		In 1862, Congress finally decided to support the railroad by passing the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862, and President Abraham Lincoln signing it on July 1.
		The Act made possible for two companies to construct a railroad to link the East and West, with land and money for every mile after forty miles.
	homepage.mac.com /dy4_/nhd/intro.html (351 words)

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		Union Pacific "119" in its original paint scheme is approaching from the East for the "Golden Spike Ceremony".
		On the day of the original ceremony in 1869 telegraph messages were wired to both coasts as well as all over the world announcing."The dream of Manifest Destiny was symbolically achieved and the continent is girdled at last by iron rails".
		The act empowered the Central Pacific Railroad Company to build railroad track from California eastward through the Nebraska Territory, Nevada and ending in Utah.
	members.aol.com /vlcondon/train4.htm (199 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Union Pacific and the Central Pacific, two railroad companies, were authorized to construct the railroad and telegraph line that would span the American continent.
		The Union Pacific was to build westward from the 100th meridian (near Omaha, Nebraska) across the Great Plains, and the Central Pacific was to build eastward from Sacramento through the Sierra Nevada.
		The leader of the Central Pacific, Charlie Crocker, was rutinely upset by the lack of publicity afforded his company--the Union Pacific was getting much more publicity than him.
	library.thinkquest.org /10353/data/rr.htm (488 words)

	Transcontinental_Railroad.html
		The Act provided land grants, mortgages, loans, and other assistance to two corporations chartered to build the railroad, which experts figured would cost $100 million—double the federal budget of 1861—and an estimated 14 years to complete.
		The Central Pacific broke ground on January 8,1863, and began its race to the east.
		Thus far the railroad had advertised for white labor only, but white laborers had proven more interested in quick wealth than in railway work, so the Central Pacific turned to another source of labor: Chinese immigrants.
	home.earthlink.net /~kahnep63/Transcontinental_Railroad_html.html (1450 words)

	Bailey Lauerman - Union Pacific Campaign
		Richard Davidson, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Union Pacific Corporation, said the 140th anniversary is a time to remember the monumental work of the first employees of UP, who, in seven years, built the nation's greatest transportation system one mile at a time.
		Ike Evans, president and chief operating officer of Union Pacific Railroad, said through mergers, acquisitions and internal growth, Union Pacific has become one of the largest and fastest-growing transportation companies in the United States.
		Its principal operating company, Union Pacific Railroad, is the largest railroad in North America, covering 23 states across the western two-thirds of the United States.
	www.baileylauerman.com /upcampaign/newsrelease02.html (618 words)

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