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	U.S. Supreme Court - SANTA CLARA COUNTY v. SOUTHERN PAC. R. CO., 118 U.S. 394 (1886)
		The railroad so to be constructed, and every part of it, was declared to be a post route and military road, subject to the use of the United States for postal, military, naval, and all other government service, and to such regulations as congress might impose for restricting the charges for government transportation.
		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.
		The company complied with the several acts of congress, and there is in operation a continuous line of railway from the Missouri river to the Pacific ocean, the Central Pacific Railroad Company owning and operating the portion thereof between Ogden, in the territory of Utah, and San Francisco.
	www.ratical.org /corporations/SCvSPR1886.html (3403 words)

	Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Southern Pacific Railroad Company, 118 U.S. was an important United States Supreme Court case dealing with corporate entities and equal protection.
		The court decision, written by Justice Harlan in favor of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, consists of a lengthy discussion of various technical factors and does not rely upon or include the determination that corporations can be classified as "persons" according to the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause.
		He concluded that Roscoe Conkling, who was working for the railroad industry at the time of his testimony before the Supreme Court, purposely misled the court with his testimony in order to grant corporations the same constitutional rights as natural persons.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Santa_Clara_County_v._Southern_Pacific_Railroad_Company (584 words)

	Southern Pacific Railroad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The railroad was founded as a land holding company in 1865, forming part of the Central Pacific Railroad empire.
		Like most railroads, the SP painted the majority of its steam locomotive fleet fl during the 20th century, but after the 1930s the SP had a policy of painting the front of the locomotive's smokebox light silver (almost white in appearance), with graphite colored sides, for visibility.
		The Central Pacific Railroad (and later the Southern Pacific) maintained and operated a fleet of ferry boats that connected Oakland with San Francisco by water.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Southern_Pacific_Railroad (2436 words)

	The Texas & Pacific Railway
		This sixty-six mile railroad was acquired by the Texas and Pacific on March 21, 1872, and was the only predecessor of the company in Texas to have built and operated a railroad.
		In 1927 the Texas and Pacific acquired the Cisco and Northeastern, the Abilene and Southern, and the Pecos Valley Southern Railway companies.
		The Oklahoma City-Ada-Atoka was resold to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company, and the Midland Valley was merged on April 1, 1967, and the Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf on April 1, 1970.
	www.trainweb.org /texasandpacific/history.html (1748 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 1866 and 1871 the Congress of the United States passed acts authorizing the Southern Pacific Railroad Company to connect with the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company and the Texas and Pacific Railroad Company, respectively, and made a subsidy of public lands as an aid and as an inducement to the construction of the road.
		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.
	cprr.org /Museum/CP_SP_Separation_1922_BCC.html (8925 words)

	Southern Pacific
		The company was originally chartered in California on December 2, 1865, as the Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
		Although this company subsequently failed, and its charter lapsed, this was the first attempt to build a railroad over a route that later became a part of the Southern Pacific.
		The last of the antebellum railroads, the San Antonio and Mexican Gulf, was combined with the Indianola Railroad Company on April 22, 1871, to form the Gulf, Western Texas and Pacific.
	home.austin.rr.com /aldossantos/southern_pacific.htm (1867 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.
		The contention of the company was that they constituted a part of its roadbed or roadway, and must therefore be assessed by the state board; but the supreme court of the state held otherwise.
	www.tourolaw.edu /patch/santa (3382 words)

	Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
		The Southern Pacific Railroad Company refused to pay a tax assessed by the California Board of Equalization upon its franchise, roadways, roadbeds, fences, and rolling stock.
		The county brought an action in state court against the railroad to recover the delinquent taxes.
		The railroad had the action removed to the federal district court.
	law.enotes.com /wests-law-encyclopedia/santa-clara-county-v-southern-pacific-railroad (186 words)

	PNWC-NRHS Regional Railroad History
		In 1933 it was reorganized as The Dalles and Southern and ceased operations in 1936.
		Short lines are small railroad companies that are entirely their own operation, almost always with a connection of some sort to interchange traffic with another company.
		The Southern Pacific built their new Natron Cutoff from Eugene to Klamath Falls over Willamette Pass, giving them access to the southern end of central Oregon, and were involved with a line to Lakeview.
	www.pnwc-nrhs.org /oregon-rr-history.html (1552 words)

	The Splinters - Volume 14 THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC
		The matter was practically settled on June 28, 1870, when Congress by joint resolution declared that "the Southern Pacific Railroad Company of California may construct its road and telegraph line as near as may be on the route indicated by the map filed” in 1867.
		Railroad Company could report a total of 711 miles; and in May, 1877, the California line was reached.
		Then in 1879 construction on the Southern Pacific of Arizona was begun in earnest, 182 miles being built that year, and by the close of 1880 its mileage equaled 293.
	www.atsfry.com /splinters/volume14/sp14p7.htm (642 words)

	History of the O&C Lands
		Congress granted specific lands to the State of Oregon in 1866 for the construction of a railroad from Portland, Oregon, southward to the California border near Ashland.
		The intent of the land grant was for the private company or corporation to sell the land so that it could recover its "up-front" expenses in the construction of the rail line.
		In 1869, Congress amended the granting Act to permit the Oregon and California Railroad Company to meet a new deadline.
	www.blm.gov /or/plans/wopr/files/OChistory.htm (1118 words)

	SANTA CLARA COUNTY v SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY - Reclaim Democracy!
		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.
		The contention of the company was that they constituted a part of its roadbed or roadway, and must therefore be assessed by the state board; but the supreme court of the state held otherwise.
		After observing that all the property of the company, other than its franchise, roadway, roadbed, rails, and rolling stock, was required by the constitution to be assessed by the local assessors, the court said: 'They are certainly not the franchise of the defendant corporation.
	www.reclaimdemocracy.org /personhood/santa_clara_vs_southern_pacific.html (3487 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		The company was originally chartered in California on December 2, 1865, as the Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
		Although this company subsequently failed, and its charter lapsed, this was the first attempt to build a railroad over a route that later became a part of the Southern Pacific.
		The last of the antebellum railroads, the San Antonio and Mexican Gulf, was combined with the Indianola Railroad Company on April 22, 1871, to form the Gulf, Western Texas and Pacific.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/SS/eqs35.html (1938 words)

	Sabine and Galveston Bay Railroad to Wisconsin Central Railroad Company Map Collection at USHistoricalArchive.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The merging of the Central with the Southern Pacific was the inspiration of Leland Stanford, Collis P. Huntington, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker.
		Map exhibiting the several Pacific railroads prepared for the report on the internal commerce of the United States by the Bureau of Statistics.
		A map of the Virginia Central Railroad, west of the Blue Ridge, and the preliminary surveys, with a profile of the grades.
	www.ushistoricalarchive.com /train_maps/cd5/index.html (2959 words)

	Smith v. Southern Pacific R. R. Co. (1934) 1 C2d 272
		THOMPSON, J. The plaintiffs have appealed from a judgment quieting the title of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company to a strip of land less than an acre in area along its right of way in Santa Clara County.
		The respondent railroad company set up as a defense that the action was barred by sections 318 and 319 of the Code of Civil Procedure, and, by way of cross-complaint, asserted ownership and asked to have its title quieted.
		It was stipulated that the Southern Pacific Railroad Company is the owner of the railroad and the Southern Pacific Company is the lessee.
	online.ceb.com /calcases/C2/1C2d272.htm (554 words)

	SOUTHERN PAC. R. CO. v. U S, 168 U.S. 1 (1897) -- US Supreme Court Cases from Justia & Oyez
		Said company filed two maps, and claimed that they were filed for the purpose of locating parts or fragments of a line for its road in the state of California; but the defendant denies that said maps constituted a valid location of said road in California.
		That the lands in question were covered by the location made by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company under the act of congress granting lands to it, and were part of those withdrawn from sale and in its favor by the secretary of the interior.
		From these documents it appears that the attorney of the railroad company described two of the maps as 'designating' and the remaining two as 'showing' the line or route of the railroad, while the two letters of the secretary describe them as maps of the 'preliminary location of portions' of the road.
	supreme.justia.com /us/168/1 (5542 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.
		Through numerous construction companies organized in 1884 and leased to the Southern Pacific Railroad, Collis Huntington, one of the Big Four of the Central Pacific Railroad, was able to protect his stock and build a fortune.
	www.linecamp.com /museums/americanwest/western_clubs/southern_pacific_railroad/southern_pacific_railroad.html (794 words)

	The Railroad Comes to the San Ramon Valley
		Kye was the general manager of a new railroad called the Contra Costa and Eastern Terminal Railroad and he grandly announced plans for a new great transcontinental railroad.
		William Kye's activities piqued the interest of Southern Pacific and a Company representative, Mr.
		Field was adamant: the Southern Pacific Railroad Company would not build the railroad if they had to pay for the right-of-way or any portion of it.
	www.ci.san-ramon.ca.us /srhistory/railroad1.htm (394 words)

	Sacramento History Online
		Southern Pacific Railroad Company (285), Pullman strike, 1894 (6), Railroad strikes--California--Sacramento (4)
		The National Guard recaptured the Sacramento Southern Pacific Railroad passenger station from the striking railroad workers.
		With armed guards the first train left the station July 11, 1894, only to be wrecked a few miles west of the city, on land now traversed by the Yolo Causeway.
	www.sacramentohistory.org /search.php?imageid=400 (119 words)

	Town of Danville :: Railroad Comes to the San Ramon Valley
		He wanted the railroad but did not understand why he and others would let a train split their best land without compensation.
		The Southern Pacific was willing to pay for station land along the line.
		Two-story Southern Pacific depots (using the train company's No. 18 gold and brown design) were built in these two communities.
	www.ci.danville.ca.us /?serviceID1=499&Frame=L1 (1064 words)

	Billy Jones Wildcat Railroad, Los Gatos, California
		Most important, however, is the joy that this railroad continues to give to the young and young at heart who enjoy the thrill of riding behind a real steam locomotive.
		Designed by John J. Coit, a Southern Pacific civil engineer, the 2-6-2 prairie type locomotive weighed approximately four tons and was constructed to a 1/3 scale running on an 18 inch gauge track.
		The water tank, a necessity when operating a steam railroad, was designed and built by volunteers, as were the steam blowdown deflector unit and the turntable.
	www.bjwrr.org (1908 words)

	Sacramento History Online
		[Southern Pacific Railroad Sacramento Shops complex: soldiers encamped during the Pullman Strike of 1894].
		[Southern Pacific Railroad Sacramento Shops complex: soldiers camped within Shops complex during Pullman strike of 1894.].
		[Southern Pacific Railroad Sacramento Shops complex: celebration to mark arrival of SP steam locomotive No. 5000].
	www.sacramentohistory.org /search.php?company=210 (232 words)

	Amazon.com: Southern Pacific Oregon Division: Books: Brian Jennison,Victor Neves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Here is an all-color pictorial of a railroad about which no one is neutral: the Southern Pacific.
		For those who love this proud, arrogant company, this book presents a retrospective on railroading in Oregon and Northern California from the mid 1960s- until the early 1990s.
		Over 190 photographs of this line illustrate the dramatic geographic and geologic conditions through which the Southern Pacific's various Oregon Division lines were built, including the Willamette, Western Oregon, Siskiyous, Cascade, Modoc, and Shasta Lines.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0945434286?v=glance (639 words)

	Angelina and Neches River Railroad Company
		The Angelina and Neches River Railroad was founded in the late 1880's by Joseph H. Kurth, Sr., S. Henderson, and brothers Sam and Eli Wiener as a logging route serving their Angelina County Lumber Co. in Keltys, near Lufkin.
		At that time, the company purchased 10 miles of track from Keltys to Manton, a settlement east of Lufkin.
		During the Depression of the 1930's, the line also used an automobile with railroad wheels to transport passengers.
	www.sfasu.edu /libweb/etrc/collections/manuscript/corporate/AngelinaNechesRR/index.asp (1018 words)

	William C. Chormicle and the Castaic Range War.
		The recent brutal and cowardly killing of their two victims-settlers on disputed lands in that quarter-cannot be defended or excused on the plea that the murderers have a license or claim to the land from the Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
		This decision was rendered, as appears from the records, in July, 1888, and, though it appears an appeal was taken, the Southern Pacific has now for nearly two years systematically delayed and postponed the case to prevent the Supreme Court from reviewing the appeal and affirming the judgment.
		Upon the application of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, the order to open the lands was suspended, and from that day to this-nearly two year-no further action has been taken.
	www.scvhistory.com /scvhistory/chormicle-times-030690.htm (530 words)

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