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	SANTA CLARA COUNTY v SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY - Reclaim Democracy!
		They made such assessment of the Southern Pacific Railroad, improperly including therein the fences between the roadway and the coterminous proprietor, and apportioned it and returned it as required to the different counties.
		In November, 1866, the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company and the Southern Pacific Railroad Company filed in the office of the secretary of the interior their respective acceptances of the act.
		There were similar rolls in reference to the Central Pacific Railroad in the same county, for the same year, and the Southern Pacific in Santa Clara county for 1882.
	www.reclaimdemocracy.org /personhood/santa_clara_vs_southern_pacific.html (3487 words)

	Southern Pacific Company. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The Southern Pacific RR survived the Panic of 1873 and inadequate financing, and in 1883, after the company had purchased several Texas railroads, Houston, Galveston, and New Orleans were reached.
		In 1884 the Southern Pacific and Central Pacific railroads—which were conceived and constructed as parts of one system—were combined under the leadership of Leland Stanford and Collis P. Huntington as a unit of interdependent systems.
		The Southern Pacific soon gained control of several bus lines in the Far West and in 1938 took over the trucking service previously provided by the Pacific Motor Transport Company.
	www.bartleby.com /65/st/SthrnPac.html (390 words)

	The Separation of the Central Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroads
		In 1865 the Southern Pacific Railroad Company was organized for the purpose of constructing a railroad from San Francisco Bay via San Diego and the eastern boundary of California, and to connect with the contemplated railroad to be built westward from the Mississippi River.
		In the Union Pacific case this court held that the acquisition by the Union Pacific, which constituted about 1,000 miles of the transcontinental system, to which we have referred, of enough stock in the Southern Pacific to dominate and control it, was violative of the Sherman Act.
		This course was limited by an arbitrary rule during the time the Union Pacific dominated the Southern Pacific from the stock purchase in 1901 until the so-called 'unmerger' in 1913, as a result of the decision of this court in the Union Pacific case.
	cprr.org /Museum/CP_SP_Separation_1922_BCC.html (8925 words)

	U.S. Supreme Court - SANTA CLARA COUNTY v. SOUTHERN PAC. R. CO., 118 U.S. 394 (1886)
		Southern Pacific Railroad Company, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that a private corporation is a person and entitled to the legal rights and protections the Constitutions affords to any person.
		For the purpose-which is avowed by congress-of facilitating the construction of the line, and thereby securing the safe and speedy transportation of mails, troops, munitions of war, and public stores, a right of way over the public domain was given to the company, and a liberal grant of the public lands was made to it.
		In 1870 the Central Pacific Railroad Company of California and the Western Pacific Railroad Company formed themselves into one corporation under the name of the Central Pacific Railroad Company, the defendant in one of these actions, 61.06 miles of whose road is in Fresno county.
	www.ratical.org /corporations/SCvSPR1886.html (3403 words)

	Southern Pacific Railroad, Big Four, Gilded Age, American West
		Southern Pacific Railroad assistant chief engineer was William Hood who devised the ingenious method of eighteen tunnels in twenty eight miles of track climbing down from the Tehachapi Mountains to the San Joaquin Valley below.
		Southern Pacific Railroad tracks in March of 1880 reached Tucson and a celebration with a Golden spike was held.
		March 1881, the Southern Pacific Railroad joined the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad at Deming in New Mexico territory to become the second transcontinental railroad.
	www.linecamp.com /museums/americanwest/western_clubs/southern_pacific_railroad/southern_pacific_railroad.html (794 words)

	Southern Pacific
		The Southern Pacific Transportation Company, commonly called the Southern Pacific, operates several transcontinental railroad routes connecting the Pacific Coast with the gateway cities of Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis, and New Orleans.
		When the Southern Pacific crossed the Colorado River to Yuma in September 1877, the Texas and Pacific was still bogged down at Fort Worth.
		The Southern Pacific also owned several railroads in Mexico, the longest of which was the Southern Pacific Railroad of Mexico, which ran from Nogales on the Arizona-Sonora border to Guadalajara.
	home.austin.rr.com /aldossantos/southern_pacific.htm (1867 words)

	Shale-oil dream ends in company collapse - www.theage.com.au
		The collapse yesterday of Southern Pacific Petroleum marked the end of one of the most enduring and ambitious dreams of the local resources industry: shale oil.
		When it collapsed, Southern Pacific was at work on the Stuart project near Gladstone, one of a clutch of shale oil prospects it held west of the Queensland regional centre.
		Southern Pacific and Central Pacific, for much of their life known as the Rundle twins, merged in 2002.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/12/02/1070351580970.html (378 words)

	Amazon.com: Sunset Limited: The Southern Pacific Railroad and the Development of the American West, 1850-1930: Books: ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tracing the story of the Southern Pacific from the founding of its earliest predecessor roads in Texas and California to the Southern's final amalgamation in the 1920s, Orsi artfully weaves corporate history with social history to show the impact of the steel horse on frontier settlement, the development of cities and the environment.
		Orsi, professor emeritus of history at Cal State, is a defender of the Southern, using the railroad as a case study for eschewing the myth of the monopolistic, land-grabbing railroads.
		This book is an excellent telling of the story of the Southern Pacific from it's beginning as a bunch of small independents through its glory years as one of the major railroads in the country down to its inglorious years.
	www.amazon.com /Sunset-Limited-Southern-Development-1850-1930/dp/0520200195 (2053 words)

	Southern Pacific / Great Plains-West Rail Galleries
		Southern Pacific 111 and 354 - at Lincoln Station in Lincoln, Nebraska.
		It was later renumbered to SP The unit was rebuilt in 1973, and finished its career on the Southern Pacific as SP 3384, and was retired in 1985.
		Willamatte and Pacific caboose #1 - is a former Missouri Pacific caboose.
	www.trainweb.org /screamingeagle/gallery/sp.html (1482 words)

	UP: New Union Pacific Locomotive Honors Men and Women of Southern Pacific Railroad
		The latest addition to Union Pacific’s Heritage Series of locomotives, the Southern Pacific locomotive, was introduced Saturday during a special employee event in Roseville, Calif. The new locomotive incorporates Southern Pacific’s historic colors and graphic elements to honor the men and women of the line affectionately known as the "Espee."
		The Southern Pacific joins the Chicago and North Western locomotive unveiled in July 2006, the Denver and Rio Grande Western rolled out in June 2006, the Katy locomotive introduced in September 2005, and the Missouri Pacific and Western Pacific locomotives unveiled in July 2005.
		Southern Pacific was noted for a number of firsts; including stewardship of its lands, unique cab-forward articulated steam locomotives, computers, development of the double-stack container car and corporate diversification.
	www.uprr.com /newsinfo/releases/heritage_and_steam/2006/0821_sp.shtml (610 words)

	Southern Pacific Building - Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco - Text
		As guests of the Southern Pacific Company all are invited to make use of its rest rooms, to attend the illustrated lectures and organ recitals in its theatre, and to stroll through The Glade in its central court, where are reproduced with natural and pleasing effect some of the noted scenes on Southern Pacific lines.
		Opening off The Glade to the left, is the Southern Pacific ticket office, where railroad tickets may he bought, Pullman reservations made and return tickets validated.
		The Equipment Exhibit of Southern Pacific in the Palace of Transportation should not be missed.
	www.books-about-california.com /Pages/Southern_Pacific_PPIE/Southern_Pacific_PPIE_text.html (707 words)

	Hazardous Business - Southern Pacific acceptance letter - Texas State Library
		In this letter, the Southern Pacific Railroad notifies the state that it has accepted the provisions of Texas law that permit it to operate in the state.
		This is not the Southern Pacific that later became one of the major railroads in the United States but a much smaller railroad that operated near Marshall.
		Much of the Southern Pacific line, which ran from Caddo Lake to Marshall, was destroyed during the Civil War.
	www.tsl.state.tx.us /exhibits/railroad/beginnings/southernpacific-acceptance.html (266 words)

	Santa Clara County v. Southern Pac. R.R.
		They made such assessment of the Southern Pacific Railroad, improperly including therein the fences between the roadway and the coterminous proprietor, and apportioned it and returned it as required to the different counties.
		In November, 1866, the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company and the Southern Pacific Railroad Company filed in the office of the secretary of the interior their respective acceptances of the act.
		There were similar rolls in reference to the Central Pacific Railroad in the same county, for the same year, and the Southern Pacific in Santa Clara county for 1882.
	www.tourolaw.edu /patch/santa (3382 words)

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		The western discovery of the Pacific Ocean in the early 1500s marked the beginning of a period of exploration that was not completed, amazingly enough, until the current century, with the exploration of the interior of Papua New Guinea.
		A long string of islands fills the south Pacific, while a large land mass is in the north.
		This is a very unusual map of the Pacific - a mirror image of the Pacific with east (with the island of California) on the left and west (with Japan obvious) on the right.
	www.prigsbee.com /maps/pacific.html (475 words)

	Southern Pacific / Cotton Belt Depots and Freight Houses by Art Fisher
		Southern Pacific depot Southern Pacific station Southern Pacific freight house Southern Pacific depot Southern Pacific station
		The Southern Pacific Railroad and its family of roads built hundreds of buildings for passengers, freight, and maintenance-of-way.
		Photos are made available free of charge with the intent of providing data for modelers and fans of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
	sptco.tnorr.com (351 words)

	The Southern Pacific Cab Forward
		The Sacramento division of the Southern Pacific had close to 150 miles of grades of up to 2.5%.
		A team of Southern Pacific design engineers came up with a plan and designs for a mallet with the cab in front, classified MC-2.
		The Southern Pacific Cab Forwards had a platform immediately following the smokebox of the locomotive (as shown in the figure on the right).
	www.steamlocomotive.com /cabforward (778 words)

	Southern Pacific Depot, Santa Clara County, California -- National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
		The Southern Pacific Depot on Cahill Street in San Jose is a multilevel combination passenger and freight railroad depot constructed in the Italian Renaissance Revival style.
		The Southern Pacific depot on Cahill Street was designed by Southern Pacific architect, John H. Christie, who had worked on the Southern Pacific remodeling of the Fresno, California, depot in 1915 and later, in 1939, worked on the Los Angeles Union Passenger Station.
		The Southern Pacific Depot in San Jose retains a high level of integrity.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/santaclara/spd.htm (308 words)

	Costa Rica Map Southern Pacific Osa Penninsula
		Extending from the mangrove ecosystem of the Delta del Térraba down the Pacific coast to the border of Panama, the Southern Pacific is Costa Rica's last remote, wild and undeveloped region.
		Among the handful of preserves located in the Southern Pacific, Parque Nacional Corcovado is arguably the nation's preeminent natural environment.
		Located high on the coastal ridge of southern Punta Banco, this 370-acre private reserve is part of a fruit farm and bucolic ecolodge.
	www.vivacostarica.com /map-of-costa-rica/costa-rica-map-southern-pacific.html (1543 words)

	Nearby Southern Pacific Depots
		For almost seventy years, Southern Pacific painted its wooden depots in the standard colors of colonial yellow, dark yellow, and medium brown, the roof in moss green, and the window sash in white.
		The existing Southern Pacific Depot at Pleasanton was built in 1901 according to this design.
		From 1912 to 1914, Southern Pacific's company photographers traveled the length of the railroad and photographed its depots, using the massive pictorial record as an inventory of its property.
	centervilledepot.railfan.net /nearbydepots.html (854 words)

	PSRR - History (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bob was interested in the Southern Pacific Railroad, a line located in the western U.S. He reversed the words to come up with the name Pacific Southern.
		Copyright 2001 Pacific Southern Railway Co. All photos and images not created by members of Pacific Southern Railway Co. are subject to the copyright regulations of their creators.
		Use of photos, images and documents belonging to Pacific Southern Railway Co. for publication is permitted providing copyright credit is given to Pacific Southern Railway Co. and a hyperlink to the homepage (pacificsouthern.org) of Pacific Southern Railway Co. is provided from any website that the photos, images and documents are used.
	www.pacificsouthern.org /History.asp (301 words)

	SANTA CLARA COUNTY v SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY - Reclaim Democracy!
		They made such assessment of the Southern Pacific Railroad, improperly including therein the fences between the roadway and the coterminous proprietor, and apportioned it and returned it as required to the different counties.
		In November, 1866, the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company and the Southern Pacific Railroad Company filed in the office of the secretary of the interior their respective acceptances of the act.
		There were similar rolls in reference to the Central Pacific Railroad in the same county, for the same year, and the Southern Pacific in Santa Clara county for 1882.
	reclaimdemocracy.org /personhood/santa_clara_vs_southern_pacific.html (3487 words)

	Fiji Travel & Accommodation - Pacific Travel Guides
		The remote interior is one of the greatest wilderness in the Pacific whilst on the dry south and western coasts, in stark contrast, large international hotel chains cater mostly to the Australian and Japanese package holiday market.
		The offshore coral atolls of the Mamanuca Islands are the gem in Fiji's tourism.
		Pacific Travel Guides is a south pacific travel publisher providing free and unbiased tourist information on the Internet as well as coffee table photographic books to help travellers plan their holidays.
	www.pacific-travel-guides.com /fiji-islands (512 words)

	Southern Pacific Company — Infoplease.com
		Southern Pacific Company, transportation system chartered (1865) in California and later reincorporated in Kentucky (1885) and Delaware (1947).
		In 1884 the Southern Pacific and Central Pacific railroads—which were conceived and constructed as parts of one system—were combined under the leadership of Leland
		Union Pacific Railroad - Union Pacific Railroad Union Pacific Railroad, transportation company chartered (1862) by Congress...
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/bus/A0846066.html (407 words)

	Southern Pacific Coast of Costa Rica
		Considered one the most virgin regions of the country, the south Pacific encompasses one of the areas of major biodiversity in Costa Rica, the Corcovado National Park.
		The south Pacific zone is rich in flora and fauna, and its environment serves as a refuge to animals in danger of extinction such as the tapir, panther, and scarlet macaw.
		In the Corcovado area 500 species of trees, 140 of mammals, 367 of birds, 40 of fresh water fish, 117 of amphibians and reptiles have been identified, and it is estimated that some 6,000 species of insects are to be found.
	www.travelexcellence.com /southernpacific.htm (314 words)

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