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was only 0.85 feet (26 cm) a day per face, which was very slow, or 1.18 feet (36 cm) daily according to historian George Kraus. J. O. Wilder, a
Central Pacific-Southern Pacific employee, commented that "The Chinese were as steady, hard-working a set of men as could be found. With the exception of a few whites at the west end of Tunnel No. 6, the laboring force was entirely composed of Chinamen with white foremen and a "boss/translator". A single foreman (often Irish) with a gang of 30 to 40 Chinese men generally constituted the force at work at each end of a tunnel; of these, 12 to 15 men worked on the heading, and the rest on the bottom, removing blasted material. When a gang was small or the men were needed elsewhere, the bottoms were worked with fewer men or stopped so as to keep the headings going." The laborers usually worked three shifts of 8 hours each per day, while the foremen worked in two shifts of 12 hours each, managing the laborers. Once out of the Sierra, construction was much easier and faster. Under the direction of construction superintendent James Harvey Strobridge, Central Pacific track-laying crews set a record with 10 miles 56 feet (16.111 km) of track laid in one day on April 28, 1869. Horace Hamilton Minkler, track foreman for the Central Pacific, laid the last rail and tie before the Last Spike was driven.
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hills would have to be cut and depressions filled or bridged. Coordinators made sure that construction and other supplies were provided when and where needed, and additional supplies were ordered as the railroad construction consumed the supplies. Specialized bridging, explosive and tunneling teams were assigned to their specialized jobs. Some jobs like explosive work, tunneling, bridging, heavy cuts or fills were known to take longer than others, so the specialized teams were sent out ahead by wagon trains with the supplies and men to get these jobs done by the time the regular track-laying crews arrived. Finance officers made sure the supplies were paid for and men paid for their work. An army of men had to be coordinated and a seemingly never-ending chain of supplies had to be provided. The
Central Pacific road crew set a track-laying record by laying 10 mi (16 km) of track in a single day, commemorating the event with a signpost beside the track for passing trains to see.
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2644:, one of the "big four" and a general contractor, that the Chinese were too small in stature and lacking previous experience with railroad work, they decided to try them anyway. After the first few days of trial with a few workers, with noticeably positive results, Crocker decided to hire as many as he could, looking primarily at the California labor force, where the majority of Chinese worked as independent gold miners or in the service industries (e.g.: laundries and kitchens). Most of these Chinese workers were represented by a Chinese "boss" who translated, collected salaries for his crew, kept discipline and relayed orders from an American general supervisor. Most Chinese workers spoke only rudimentary or no English, and the supervisors typically only learned rudimentary Chinese. Many more workers were imported from the
2188:—manufactured near the tunnel. They used nitroglycerin to deepen the summit tunnel to the required 16-foot (4.9 m) height after the four tunnel faces met, and made even faster progress. Nearly all other tunnels were worked on both tunnel faces and met in the middle. Depending on the material the tunnels penetrated, they were left unlined or lined with brick, rock walls or timber and post. Some tunnels were designed to bend in the middle to align with the track bed curvature. Despite this potential complication, nearly all the different tunnel center lines met within 2 inches (5 cm) or so. The detailed survey work that made these tunnel digs as precise as required was nearly all done by the Canadian-born and -trained Lewis Clement, the CPRR's Chief Assistant Engineer and Superintendent of Track, and his assistants.
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knew they would not turn a profit on the railroad business for many months, possibly years. They determined to make a profit on the construction itself. Both groups of financiers formed independent companies to complete the project, and they controlled management of the new companies along with the railroad ventures. This self-dealing allowed them to build in generous profit margins paid out by the railroad companies. In the west, the four men heading the
Central Pacific chose a simple name for their company, the "Contract and Finance Company." In the east, the Union Pacific selected a foreign name, calling their construction firm "Crédit Mobilier of America." The latter company was later implicated in a far-reaching scandal which would greatly effect the railroads purpose, described later.
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that was identified as taking a long time was started as soon as its projected track location could be ascertained and work crews, supplies and road work equipment found to be sent ahead. Tunnels, trestles and bridges were nearly all built this way. The spread-out nature of the work resulted in the work being split into two divisions, with L. M. Clement taking the upper division from Blue Cañon to
Truckee and Cadwalader taking the lower division from Truckee to the Nevada border. Other assistant engineers were assigned to specific tasks such as building a bridge, tunnel or trestle which was done by the workers under experienced supervisors.
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Pacific) and water for the steam train locomotives, etc." After a flatcar was unloaded, it would usually be hooked to a small locomotive and pulled back to a siding, so another flatcar with rails etc. could be advanced to the railhead. Since juggling railroad cars took time on flat ground, where wagon transport was easier, the rail cars would be brought to the end of the line by steam locomotive, unloaded, and the flat car returned immediately to a siding for another loaded car of either ballast or rails. Temporary sidings were often installed where it could be easily done to expedite getting needed supplies to the railhead.
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2652:. Most Chinese workers were planning on returning with their newfound "wealth" when the work was completed. Most of the men received between one and three dollars per day, the same as unskilled white workers; but the workers imported directly from China sometimes received less. A diligent worker could save over $ 20 per month after paying for food and lodging—a "fortune" by Chinese standards. A snapshot of workers in late 1865 showed about 3,000 Chinese and 1,700 white workers employed on the railroad. Nearly all of the white workers were in supervisory or skilled craft positions and made more money than the Chinese.
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blast their way through the hills. The only disadvantage came when a nearby valley needed fill to get across it. The explosive technique often blew most of the potential fill material down the hillside, making it unavailable for fill. Initially, many valleys were bridged by "temporary" trestles that could be rapidly built and were later replaced by much lower maintenance and permanent solid fill. The existing railroad made transporting and putting material in valleys much easier—load it on railway dump cars, haul where needed and dump it over the side of the trestle.
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wagon road and used as a winch driver to help remove loosened rock from the vertical shaft and two working faces. By the winter of 1866–67, work had progressed sufficiently and a camp had been built for workers on the summit tunnel which allowed work to continue. The cross section of a tunnel face was a 16-foot-wide (4.9 m), 16-foot-high (4.9 m) oval with an 11-foot (3.4 m) vertical wall. Progress on the tunnel sped up to over 1.5 feet (0.46 m) per day per face when they started using the newly invented
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set and then ignited from a safe distance. Nitroglycerin, which had been invented less than two decades before the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, was used in relatively large quantities during its construction. This was especially true on the
Central Pacific Railroad, which owned its own nitroglycerin plant to ensure it had a steady supply of the volatile explosive. This plant was operated by Chinese laborers as they were willing workers even under the most trying and dangerous of conditions.
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holes with a rock drill and hammer, filling them with black powder and trying to blast the granite loose. One crew worked drilling holes on the faces and another crew collected and removed the loosened rock after each explosion. The workers were pulled off the summit tunnel and the track grading east of Donner Pass in the winter of 1865–1866 as there was no way to supply them, nor quarters they could have lived in. The crews were transferred to work on bridges and track grading on the
Truckee River canyon.
1963:, ahead of the railroad construction. The Mormon and Union Pacific rail work was joined in the area of the present-day border between Utah and Wyoming. The longest of four tunnels built in Weber Canyon was 757-foot-long (231 m) Tunnel 2. Work on this tunnel started in October 1868 and was completed six months later. Temporary tracks were laid around it and Tunnels 3 (508 feet or 155 metres), 4 (297 feet or 91 metres) and 5 (579 feet or 176 metres) to continue work on the tracks west of the tunnels.
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hewn timber and round logs. Snow galleries had one side and a roof that sloped upward until it met the mountainside, thus permitting avalanches to slide over the galleries, some of which extended up the mountainside as much as 200 feet (61 m). Masonry walls such as the "Chinese Walls" at Donner Summit were built across canyons to prevent avalanches from striking the side of the vulnerable wooden construction. A few concrete sheds (mostly at crossovers) are still in use today.
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2439:(3.6 m each) of firewood needed for the many steam engines and pumps, cooking stoves, heating stoves etc. in Comstock Lode towns and the tons of ice needed by the miners as they worked ever deeper into the "hot" Comstock Lode ore body. In the mines, temperatures could get above 120 °F (49 °C) at the work face and a miner often used over 100 pounds (45 kg) of ice per shift. This new railroad connected to the Central Pacific near Reno, and went through
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summit about one mile (1.6 km) south of Donner Pass through the 10,322-foot-long (3,146 m) Tunnel #41 ("The Big Hole") running under Mt. Judah between Soda
Springs and Eder, which was opened in 1925 when the summit section of the grade was double tracked. This routing change was made because the Track 2 and Tunnel 41 Summit crossing is far easier and less expensive to maintain and keep open in the harsh Sierra winters.
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workers and supervisors were hired because they had previous railroad on-the-job training, knew what needed to be done and how to direct workers to get it done. After the key personnel were hired, the semi-skilled jobs could be filled if there was available labor. The engineering team's main job was to tell the workers where to go, what to do, how to do it, and provide the construction material they would need to get it done.
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incentives and bonds would hopefully cover most of the initial capital investment needed to build the railroad. The bonds would be paid back by the sale of government-granted land, as well as prospective passenger and freight income. Most of the engineers and surveyors who figured out how and where to build the railroad on the Union
Pacific were engineering college trained. Many of Union Pacific engineers and surveyors were
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freight and passengers needed by the CPRR and to carry other cargo over their toll road to and from the ever-advancing railhead and over the Sierra to the gold and silver mining towns of Nevada. As the railroad advanced, their freight rates with the combined rail and wagon shipments would become much more competitive. The volume of the toll road freight traffic to Nevada was estimated to be about $ 13,000,000 a year as the
3822:"The charter of the last-named Company contemplated a line from Sacramento toward San Francisco, making the circuit of the Bay of that name . Their franchise has recently been assigned to parties in the interest of the Central Pacific Railroad Company; and it is probable that this line will be formally incorporated with the Central Pacific Railroad, and the road extended from Sacramento to San Francisco by the
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2613:, landed contracts with the Union Pacific that offered jobs for around 2,000 members of the church with the hope that the railroad would support commerce in Utah. Church members built most of the road through Utah. Construction superintendent Durant repeatedly failed to pay the wages agreed upon. The Union Pacific train carrying him to the final spike ceremony was held up by a strike by unpaid workers in
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909:(at 6% interest). The railroad companies were paid $ 16,000 per mile (approximately $ 543,000 per mile today) for track laid on a level grade, $ 32,000 per mile (about $ 1,085,000 per mile today) for track laid in foothills, and $ 48,000 per mile (or about $ 1,628,000 per mile today) for track laid in mountains. The two railroad companies sold similar amounts of company-backed bonds and stock.
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2864:"By the end of the 19th century, only 300 buffalo were left in the wild. Congress finally took action, outlawing the killing of any birds or animals in Yellowstone National Park, where the only surviving buffalo herd could be protected. Conservationists established more wildlife preserves, and the species slowly rebounded. Today, there are more than 200,000 bison in North America."
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and work on several different sections proceeded simultaneously. One advantage of working on tunnels in winter was that tunnel work could often proceed since the work was nearly all "inside". Living quarters would have to be built outside and getting new supplies was difficult. Working and living in winter in the presence of snow slides and avalanches caused some deaths.
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supervisors. Usually the workers lived in camps built near their work site. Supplies were ordered by the engineers and hauled by rail, possibly then to be loaded on wagons if they were needed ahead of the railhead. Camps were moved when the railhead moved a significant distance. Later, as the railroad started moving long distances every few days, some railroad cars had
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Sierras and the Carson Range, progress sped up considerably as the railroad bed could be built over nearly flat ground. In those days, the Central Pacific once did a section of 10 miles (16 km) of track in one day as a "demonstration" of what they could do on flat ground like most of the Union Pacific had in Wyoming and Nebraska.
2640:, horse or mule pulled carts, and a few railroad pulled gondolas. The construction work involved an immense amount of manual labor. Initially, Central Pacific had a hard time hiring and keeping unskilled workers on its line, as many would leave for the prospect of far more lucrative gold or silver mining options elsewhere. Despite the concerns expressed by
2855:'s first postwar command (Military Division of the Mississippi) covered the territory west of the Mississippi and east of the Rocky Mountains, and his top priority was to protect the construction of the railroads. In 1867, he wrote to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, "we are not going to let thieving, ragged Indians check and stop the progress" of the railroads.
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operational. Telegraph operators had to be hired to man each station to keep track of where the trains were so that trains could run in each direction on the available single track without interference or accidents. Sidings had to be built to allow trains to pass. Provision had to be made to store and continually pay for coal or wood needed to run the
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The primary incentive had been getting the subsidies, which meant that upgrades of all kinds were routinely required in the following years. The cost of making these upgrades was relatively small once the railroad was operating. Once the railroad was complete supplies could be moved from distant factories directly to the construction site by rail.
3888:(NP) found and built a better route across the northern tier of the western United States from Minnesota to the Pacific Coast. It was approved by Congress in 1864 and given nearly 40 million acres (160,000 km) of land grants, which it used to raise money in Europe. Construction began in 1870 and the main line opened all the way from the
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surveyors with extensive experience building railroads, but it had a difficult time finding semi-skilled labor. Most Caucasians in California preferred to work in the mines or agriculture. The railroad experimented by hiring local emigrant Chinese as manual laborers, many of whom were escaping the poverty and terrors of the war (especially the
4358:"A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California: Illustrated. Containing a History of This Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the Earliest Period of Its Occupancyand Biographical Mention of Many of Its Most Eminent Pioneers and Also of Prominent Citizens of Today". Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company. (1891) pp. 214–221
1607:. The original westward travelers in their ox and mule pulled wagons tried to stick to river valleys to avoid as much road building as possible—gradients and sharp corners were usually of little or no concern to them. The ox and mule pulled wagons were the original off-road vehicles in their day since nearly all of the
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emigrant trails were closed in winter. The North Platte–South Pass route was far less beneficial for a railroad, as it was about 150 miles (240 km) longer and much more expensive to construct up the narrow, steep and rocky canyons of the North Platte. The route along the North Platte was also further from
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2752:, then by cutting a railroad bed up the mountains themselves. As they progressed higher in the mountains, winter snowstorms and a shortage of reliable labor compounded the problems. On January 7, 1865, a want ad for 5,000 laborers was placed in the Sacramento Union. Consequently, after a trial crew of
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on a prepared rail bed in one day—a record that still stands today. The Central Pacific and Union Pacific raced to get as much track laid as possible, and the Central Pacific laid about 560 miles (900 km) of track from Reno to Promontory Summit in the one year before the Last Spike was driven on
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at Eder, bypassing and abandoning the tunnel 6–8 complex, the concrete snowsheds just beyond them, and tunnels 9–12 ending at MP 195.7, all of which had been located on Track 1 within two miles of the summit. Since then all east- and westbound traffic has been run over the Track #2 grade crossing the
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line so that each hammer stroke would be heard as a click at telegraph stations nationwide—the hammer strokes were missed, so the clicks were sent by the telegraph operator. As soon as the ceremonial "Last Spike" had been replaced by an ordinary iron spike, a message was transmitted to both the East
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were used to help remove loose rocks up the vertical shafts. These derricks were later replaced with steam hoists as work progressed. By using vertical shafts, four faces of the tunnel could be worked at the same time, two in the middle and one at each end. The average daily progress in some tunnels
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Central Pacific had 1,694 freight cars available by May 1869, with more under construction in their Sacramento yard. Major repairs and maintenance on the Central Pacific rolling stock was done in their Sacramento maintenance yard. Near the end of 1869, Central Pacific had 162 locomotives, of which 2
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and/or horse or mule cart or blast it loose. To blast a V-shaped cut out, they had to drill several holes up to 20 feet (6.1 m) deep in the material, fill them with black powder, and blast the material away. Since the Central Pacific was in a hurry, they were profligate users of black powder to
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Hills or ridges in front of the railroad road bed would have to have a flat-bottomed, V-shaped "cut" made to get the railroad through the ridge or hill. The type of material determined the slope of the V and how much material would have to be removed. Ideally, these cuts would be matched with valley
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was appointed as Central Pacific's new Chief Engineer, with Lewis M. Clement as Assistant Chief Engineer and Charles Cadwalader as second assistant. To build the new railroad, detailed surveys had to be run that showed where the cuts, fills, trestles, bridges and tunnels would have to be built. Work
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and white workers were paid $ 30 per month and given food and lodging. Most Chinese were initially paid $ 31 per month and provided lodging, but they preferred to cook their own meals. In 1867 the CPRR raised their wage to $ 35 (equivalent to $ 760 in 2023) per month after a strike. CPRR came to see
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Both railroads soon instituted extensive upgrade projects to build better bridges, viaducts and dugways as well as install heavier duty rails, stronger ties, better road beds etc. The original track had often been laid as fast as possible with only secondary attention to maintenance and durability.
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and galleries were built between Blue Cañon and Truckee, covering cuts and other points where there was danger of avalanches. 2,500 men and six material trains were employed in this work, which was completed in 1869. The sheds were built with two sides and a steep peaked roof, mostly of locally cut
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Chinese laborers were also crucial in the construction of 15 tunnels along the railroad's line through the Sierra Nevada mountains. These were about 32 feet (9.8 m) high and 16 feet (4.9 m) wide. When tunnels with vertical shafts were dug to increase construction speed, tunneling began in
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Track ballast was put between the ties as they progressed. Where a proper railbed had already been prepared, the work progressed rapidly. Constantly needed supplies included "food, water, ties, rails, spikes, fishplates, nuts and bolts, track ballast, telegraph poles, wire, firewood (or coal on the
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Most of the early work on the Central Pacific consisted of constructing the railroad track bed, cutting and/or blasting through or around hills, filling in washes, building bridges or trestles, digging and blasting tunnels and then laying the rails over the Sierra Nevada mountains. Once the Central
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In total, the Central Pacific had eleven tunnel projects (Nos. 3 through 13) under construction in the Sierra from 1865 to 1868, with seven tunnels located in a 2-mile (3.2 km) stretch on the east side of Donner Summit. The tunnels were usually built by drilling a series of holes in the tunnel
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boomed, and getting even part of this freight traffic would help pay for the railroad construction. When the railroad reached Reno, it had the majority of all Nevada freight shipments, and the price of goods in Nevada dropped significantly as the freight charges to Nevada dropped significantly. The
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in 1857 when he was an attorney to represent him in a business matter about a bridge over the Missouri. Now Lincoln was responsible for choosing the eastern terminus, and he relied on Durant's counsel. Durant advocated for Omaha, and he was so confident of the choice that he began buying up land in
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Despite the transcontinental success and millions in government subsidies, the Union Pacific faced bankruptcy less than three years after the Last Spike as details surfaced about overcharges that Crédit Mobilier had billed Union Pacific for the formal building of the railroad. The scandal hit epic
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To carve a tunnel, one worker held a rock drill on the granite face while one to two other workers swung eighteen-pound sledgehammers to sequentially hit the drill which slowly advanced into the rock. Once the hole was about 10 inches (25 cm) deep, it would be filled with black powder, a fuse
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veterans (including two generals) who had learned their railroad trade keeping the trains running and tracks maintained during the U.S. Civil War. After securing the finances and selecting the engineering team, the next step was to hire the key personnel and prospective supervisors. Nearly all key
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pushed by locomotives, as well as manual shovelling. With the advent of more efficient oil fired steam and later diesel electric power to drive plows, flangers, spreaders, and rotary snow plows, most of the wooden snowsheds have long since been removed as obsolete. Tunnels 1–5 and Tunnel 13 of the
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The railroad gained about 3,200 feet (980 m) in the 220 miles (350 km) climb to Cheyenne from North Platte, Nebraska—about 15 feet per mile (2.8 m/km)—a very gentle slope of less than one degree average. This "new" route had never become an emigrant route because it lacked the water
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built in them that moved with the workers—the Union Pacific had used this technique since 1866. Almost all of the roadbed work had to be done manually, using shovels, picks, axes, two-wheeled dump carts, wheelbarrows, ropes, scrapers, etc., with initially only black powder available for blasting.
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had been purchased in the eastern states and shipped to California by sea. Thirty-six additional locomotives were built and coming west, and twenty-eight more were under construction. There was a shortage of passenger cars and more had to be ordered. The first Central Pacific sleeper, the "Silver
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In 1866, they put in a 125-foot (38 m) vertical shaft in the center of the summit tunnel and started work towards the east and west tunnel faces, giving four working faces on the summit tunnel to speed up progress. A steam engine off an old locomotive was brought up with much effort over the
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In June 1864, the Central Pacific railroad entrepreneurs opened Dutch Flat and Donner Lake Wagon Road (DFDLWR). Costing about $ 300,000 and a years worth of work, this toll road wagon route was opened over much of the route the Central Pacific railroad (CPRR) would use over Donner Summit to carry
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and leveled to get ready for the rails. Rails, which weighed the most, were often kicked off the flatcars and carried by gangs of men on each side of the rail to where needed. The rails just in front of the rail car would be placed first, measured for the correct gauge with gauge sticks and then
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was too shallow and meandering to provide river transport, but the Platte river valley headed west and sloped up gradually at about 6 feet per mile (1.1 m/km), often allowing to lay a mile (1.6 km) of track a day or more in 1866 as the Union Pacific finally started moving rapidly west.
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went cross country over rough, unimproved trails. The route over South Pass's main advantage for wagons pulled by oxen or mules was a shorter elevation over an "easy" pass to cross and its "easy" connection to nearby river valleys on both sides of the continental divide for water and grass. The
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The Union Pacific reached the new railroad town of Cheyenne in December 1867, having laid about 270 miles (430 km) that year. They paused over the winter, preparing to push the track over Evans (Sherman's) Pass. At 8,247 feet (2,514 m), Evans Pass was the highest point reached on the
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It was far from a given that the railroads operating in the thinly-settled west would make enough money to repay their construction and operation. If the railroad companies failed to sell the land granted them within three years, they were required to sell it at prevailing government price for
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Tunnels were blasted through hard rock by drilling holes in the rock face by hand and filling them with black powder. Sometimes cracks were found which could be filled with powder and blasted loose. The loosened rock would be collected and hauled out of the tunnel for use in a fill area or as
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Judah returned to California in 1860. He continued to search for a more practical route through the Sierra suitable for a railroad. In mid-1860, local miner Daniel Strong had surveyed a route over the Sierra for a wagon toll road, which he realized would also suit a railroad. He described his
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Durant had initially come up with the scheme to have Crédit Mobilier subcontract to do the actual track work. Durant gained control of the company after buying out employee Herbert Hoxie for $ 10,000. Under Durant's guidance, Crédit Mobilier was charging Union Pacific often twice or more the
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bars to each rail. At the same time, another gang would distribute telegraph poles and wire along the grade, while the cooks prepared dinner and the clerks busied themselves with accounts, records, using the telegraph line to relay requests for more materials and supplies or communicate with
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to Denver, construction started east from Denver in March 1870 to meet the railroad coming west from Kansas city. The two crews met at a point called Comanche Crossing, Kansas Territory, on August 15, 1870. Denver was now firmly on track to becoming the largest city and the future capital of
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railroad line in 1870. Elevated 6,070 feet (1,850 m) above sea level, and sitting on the new Union Pacific route with a connection to Denver, Cheyenne was chosen to become a major railroad center and was equipped with extensive railroad yards, maintenance facilities, and a Union Pacific
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After 1864, the Central Pacific Railroad received the same Federal financial incentives as the Union Pacific Railroad, along with some construction bonds granted by the state of California and the city of San Francisco. The Central Pacific hired some Canadian and European civil engineers and
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of mountains east of the Sierras. The route down the rugged Truckee River Canyon, including required bridges, was done ahead of the main summit tunnel completion. To expedite the building of the railroad through the Truckee River canyon, the Central Pacific hauled two small locomotives,
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at Promontory Summit in Utah territory on May 10, 1869. Some Union Pacific officers declined to pay the Mormons all of the agreed upon construction costs of the work through Weber Canyon, and beyond, claiming Union Pacific poverty despite the millions they had extracted through the
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on the transcontinental railroad, required cutting through granite for nearly a mile on each side. The initial Dale Creek bridge had a train speed limit of 4 miles (6.4 km) per hour across the bridge. Beyond Dale Creek, railroad construction paused at what became the town of
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that would later parallel its route) and in February 1868 resumed construction on it, which had halted in October 1866 because of funding troubles. On September 6, 1869, the first transcontinental rail passengers arrived at the Pacific Railroad's original western terminus on the
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roadbed, or else dumped over the side as waste. A foot or so advance on a tunnel face was a typical day's work. Some tunnels took almost a year to finish and the Summit Tunnel, the longest, took almost two years. In the final days of working in the Sierras, the recently invented
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Council Bluffs had several advantages: It was well north of the Civil War fighting in Missouri; it was the shortest route to South Pass in the Rockies in Wyoming; and it would follow a fertile river that would encourage settlement. Durant had hired the future president
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Once the central route was chosen, it was immediately obvious that the western terminus should be Sacramento. But there was considerable difference of opinion about the eastern terminus. Three locations along 250 miles (400 km) of Missouri River were considered:
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The Union Pacific Railroad did not start construction for another 18 months until July 1865. They were delayed by difficulties obtaining financial backing and the unavailability of workers and materials due to the Civil War. Their start point in the new city of
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in 1865 when he was in the U.S. Army. The new route surveyed across Wyoming was over 150 miles (240 km) shorter, had a flatter profile, allowing for cheaper and easier railroad construction, and also went closer by Denver and the known coalfields in the
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for the early trains with steam locomotives may have been as often as every 10 miles (16 km). On one memorable occasion, not far from Promontory, the Central Pacific crews organized an army of workers and five train loads of construction material, and
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published correspondence detailing the scheme between Henry S. McComb and Ames. In the ensuing Congressional investigation, it was recommended that Ames be expelled from Congress, but this was reduced to a censure and Ames died within three months.
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were conducted from 1853 through 1855. These included an extensive series of expeditions of the American West seeking possible routes. A report on the explorations described alternative routes and included an immense amount of information about the
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Military Bridges: With Suggestions for New Expedients and Constructions for Crossing Streams and Chasms; Including, Also, Designs for Trestle and Truss Bridges for Military Railroads, Adapted Especially to the Wants of the Service in the United
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linked Sacramento to the cities and their harbor facilities in the San Francisco Bay until late 1869, when the CPRR completed and opened the Western Pacific portion (which the CPRR had acquired control of in 1867–68 to Alameda first and then to
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through central Utah and Nevada. The telegraph lines along the railroad were easier to protect and maintain. Many of the original telegraph lines were abandoned as the telegraph business was consolidated with the railroad telegraph lines.
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merchant, heard Judah's presentation about the railroad at the St. Charles Hotel in November 1860. He invited Judah to his office to hear his proposal in detail. Huntington persuaded Judah to accept financing from himself and four others:
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in 1878, he acknowledged that the Native Americans were scuttled to reservations with no compensation beyond the promise of religious instruction and basic supplies of food and clothing—promises, he wrote, which were never fulfilled."
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workers was hired and found to work successfully, the Central Pacific expanded its efforts to hire more emigrant laborers—mostly Chinese. Emigrants from poverty stricken regions of China, many of which suffered from the strife of the
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had cut off shipments of black powder from the East to the mining and railroad industry of California and Nevada. The Central Pacific was a prolific user of black powder, often using up to 500 kegs of 25 pounds (11 kg) per day.
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captures the fervent nationalism that drove public support for the project. Among the cooks serving the film's cast and crew between shots were some of the Chinese laborers who worked on the Central Pacific section of the railroad.
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When the last spike was driven, the rail network was not yet connected to the Atlantic or Pacific but merely connected Omaha to Sacramento. To get from Sacramento to the Pacific, the Central Pacific purchased in 1867 the struggling
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profile weighing 56 or 66 pounds per yard (27.8 or 32.7 kg/m). The railroad companies were intent on completing the project as rapidly as possible at a minimum cost. Within a few years, nearly all railroads converted to
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and Wells in Nevada (with many more fuel and water stops), before connecting with the Union Pacific line at Promontory Summit in the Utah Territory. When the eastern end of the CPRR was extended to Ogden by purchasing the
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ceremonially broke ground in Sacramento, California, to begin construction of the Central Pacific Railroad. After great initial progress along the Sacramento Valley, construction was slowed, first by the foothills of the
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original 1860s tunnels on Track 1 of the Sierra grade remain in use today, while additional new tunnels were later driven when the grade was double tracked over the first quarter of the twentieth century. In 1993, the
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roughly follows the path of the railroad from Sacramento across modern day California, Nevada, Wyoming and Nebraska, with a few exceptions. Most significantly, the two routes are different between Wells, Nevada, and
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was a fervent supporter of the central route railroad. He lobbied vigorously in favor of the project and undertook the survey of the route through the rugged Sierra Nevada, one of the chief obstacles of the project.
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The Central Pacific broke ground on January 8, 1863. Because of insufficient transportation alternatives from the manufacturing centers on the east coast, virtually all of their tools and machinery including rails,
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by Mary Ann Fraser tells the story of the record setting push by the Central Pacific in which they set a record by laying 10 miles (16 km) of track in a single day on April 28, 1869, to settle a $ 10,000 bet.
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After the transcontinental railroads were completed, many other railroads were built to connect up to other population centers in Utah, Wyoming, Kansas, Colorado, Oregon, Washington territories, etc. In 1869, the
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homesteads: $ 1.25 per acre ($ 3.09/ha). If they failed to repay the bonds, all remaining railroad property, including trains and tracks, would revert to the U.S. government. To encourage settlement in the west,
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construction. In the 1860s there was no heavy equipment that could be used to make these cuts or haul it away to make the fills. The options were to dig it out by pick and shovel, haul the hillside material by
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under the name of the Central Pacific Railroad Company became effective on June 22, 1870, with the filing of Articles of Consolidation drawn under the laws of California with the California Secretary of State.
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was one of their more difficult railroad engineering challenges. Dale Creek Bridge was 650 feet (200 m) long and 125 feet (38 m) above Dale Creek. The bridge components were pre-built of timber in
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Carts pulled by mules, and horses were about the only labor-saving devices available then. Lumber and ties were usually provided by independent contractors who cut, hauled and sawed the timber as required.
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The railroad tracks, spikes, telegraph wire, locomotives, railroad cars, supplies etc. were imported from the east on sailing ships that sailed the nearly 18,000-mile (29,000 km), 200-day trip around
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canyon. To speed up construction as much as possible, Union Pacific contracted several thousand Mormon workers to cut, fill, trestle, bridge, blast and tunnel its way down the rugged Weber River Canyon to
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was appointed Chief Engineer on the Union Pacific, but hard-working General "Jack" Casement continued to work as chief construction "boss" and his brother Daniel Casement continued as a financial officer.
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While the federal legislation for the Union Pacific required that no partner was to own more than 10 percent of the stock, the Union Pacific had problems selling its stock. One of the few subscribers was
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required that an official date of completion be determined for the purpose of determining how other provisions of the Acts would be carried out. November 6, 1869, was confirmed as being that date by the
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on the north. As the railroad climbed out of Sacramento up to Donner Summit, there was only one 3-mile (4.8 km) section near "Cape Horn CPRR" where the railroad grade slightly exceeded two percent.
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6569:"Map of the Central Pacific Railroad and its Connections" published in the California Mail Bag San Francisco News Letter and California Advertiser, Vol. 1, No. 4, Oct–Nov. 1871. accessed May 1, 2013.
3583:(part of the "Dear America" series) is written as the fictional diary of Libby West, who chronicles the end of the railroad construction and the excitement that engulfed the country at the time.
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Route of the first American transcontinental railroad from Sacramento, California, to Council Bluffs, Iowa. Other railroads connected at Council Bluffs to cities throughout the East and Midwest.
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or valleys, made tunnels if needed, and laid the ties. The actual track-laying gang would then lay rails on the previously laid ties positioned on the roadbed, drive the spikes, and bolt the
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Several years after the end of the Civil War, the competing railroads coming from Missouri finally realized their initial strategic advantage and a building boom ensued. In July 1869, the
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Before major construction could begin, Judah traveled back to New York City to raise funds to buy out The Big Four. Shortly after arriving in New York, Judah died on November 2, 1863, of
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of potential routes needed to estimate the feasibility, cost and select the best route. However, the survey was detailed enough to determine that the best southern route lay south of the
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The Silent Spikes: Chinese Laborers and the Construction of North American Railroads, comp. and ed. Huang Annian, trans. Zhang Juguo (n.p.: China Intercontinental Press, 2006), p. 36.
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on the almost treeless plains across Nebraska and Wyoming. Coal shipments by rail were also looked on as a potentially major source of income—this potential is still being realized.
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was crossed with a new bridge, and the new "railroad" town of Green River constructed there after the tracks reached the Green River on October 1, 1868—the last big river to cross.
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In 1856, the Select Committee on the Pacific Railroad and Telegraph of the US House of Representatives published a report recommending support for a proposed Pacific railroad bill:
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so soon as the overland connection is completed. In the meantime the travel is abundantly accommodated by first-class steamers." – Central Pacific Railroad Company of California
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allow for grades up to six-percent grades, which allows them to go many places the railroads had to go around, since their goal was to hold their grades to less than two percent.
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Vernon, Edward (Ed) "Travelers' Official Railway Guide of the United States and Canada" Philadelphia: The National General Ticket Agents' Association. June, 1870, Tables 215, 216
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which granted an applicant 160 acres (65 ha) of land with the requirement that the applicant improve the land. This incentive encouraged thousands of settlers to move west.
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over some of the track was instituted to protect it from deep snows and avalanches. These eventually succeeded at keeping the tracks clear for all but a few days of the year.
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5966:"Where the Buffalo No Longer Roamed: The Transcontinental Railroad connected East and West – and accelerated the destruction of what had been in the center of North America"
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From January or February 1861 until July, Judah and Strong led a 10-person expedition to survey the route for the railroad over the Sierra Nevada through Clipper Gap and
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Letter from Z.B. Sturgus, Chief, Lands and Railroad Division, Office of the Secretary, US Department of the Interior, to US Rep. William Lawrence (R-OH8), April 28, 1876
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6544:(University of California Press; 2013) 242 pages; studies the production, distribution, and publication of images of the railroad in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
4010:"Report on the Pacific Railroads", US House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, House Ex. Doc. #440, 44th Congress, First Session, April 25, 1876, pp. 3, 6
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Ames then in turn gave stock options to other politicians while at the same time continuing the lucrative overcharges. The scandal was to implicate Vice President
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Kansas City's head start in connecting to a true transcontinental railroad contributed to it rather than Omaha becoming the dominant rail center west of Chicago.
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The Central Pacific laid 690 miles (1,110 km) of track, starting in Sacramento, California, in 1863 and continuing over the rugged 7,000-foot (2,100 m)
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At that time in the United States, there were two primary standards for track gauge, as defined by the distance between the two rails. In Britain, the gauge was
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The vertical central shaft of the CPRR "Summit Tunnel" (Tunnel#6) at Donner Summit which allowed drilling and excavation to be carried out on four faces at once
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ended in 1865, the Union Pacific still competed for railroad supplies with companies who were building or repairing railroads in the south, and prices rose.
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province in China. When they proved themselves as workers, the CPRR from that point forward preferred to hire Chinese, and even set up recruiting efforts in
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Carver's 1847 proposal records himself as having written a newspaper article on the subject in 1837. Some sources say that he wrote such an article in 1832.
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explosive, which expedited work but caused some fatal accidents. While building the railroad along the rugged Weber River Canyon, Mormon workers signed the
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and grass to feed the emigrants' oxen and mules. Steam locomotives did not need grass, and the railroad companies could drill wells for water if necessary.
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to help clear the tracks of snow or help haul heavy freight over Evans pass. The Union Pacific's junction with the Denver Railroad with its connection to
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for transport across the Bay to San Francisco. On November 8, 1869, the Central Pacific finally completed the rail connection to its western terminus at
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during the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad. In 1865 while fighting against Native-American tribes he would discover a pass in the
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to divest it because of monopoly concerns. The two railroads would once again unite in 1996 when the Southern Pacific was sold to the Union Pacific.
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Williams, Henry T.; published by Adams & Bishop, New York, 1881 ed. Gives insights to travel in the late 1880s on the transcontinental railroad.
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transcontinental railroad. About 4 miles (6.4 km) beyond Evans pass, the railroad had to build an extensive bridge over the Dale Creek canyon (
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and into what would become the state of Wyoming at Lone Pine, Wyoming. Evans Pass was located between what would become the new "railroad" towns of
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that year. By 1871, Evanston became a significant maintenance shop town equipped to carry out extensive repairs on the cars and steam locomotives.
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as the location of its Transfer Depot where up to seven railroads could transfer mail and other goods to Union Pacific trains bound for the west.
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face, filling them with black powder and detonating it to break the rock free. The black powder was provided by the California Powder Works near
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but died when it could not be reconciled with the Senate version because of opposition from southern states who wanted a southern route near the
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steel-making were in use by 1865, but the advantages of steel rails which lasted much longer than iron rails had not yet been demonstrated. The
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Six years after the groundbreaking, laborers of the Central Pacific Railroad from the west and the Union Pacific Railroad from the east met at
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of government-owned lands—6,400 acres (2,600 ha) per mile (1.6 km)—for 10 miles (16 km) on both sides of the track, forming a
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a "Proposal for a Charter to Build a Railroad from Lake Michigan to the Pacific Ocean", seeking a congressional charter to support his idea.
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Markham, Edwin "The Romance of the 'C.P.' " SUCCESS (magazine). New York: The Success Company, Vol. VI, Number 106, March, 1903. pp. 127–130
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Woodward, C. Vann "Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction". Oxford: Oxford University Press (1991) p. 92
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Linda Hall Library's Transcontinental Railroad educational site with free, full-text access to 19th century American railroad periodicals
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pp. 9–11, 14–15, Volume 50, No. 2, April 1996, and papers compiled by David Comstock, Searls Historical Library, Nevada City, California.
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to create the Southern Pacific Company in 1885. The Union Pacific initially took over the Southern Pacific in 1901 but was forced by the
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which could do the trip in about 120 days. Some passengers and high-priority freight were shipped over the newly completed (as of 1855)
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as the railroad followed the Platte River across Nebraska territory. The railroad even dipped into what would become the new state of
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connecting to the Union Pacific. In August 1870, the Kansas Pacific drove the last spike connecting to the Denver Pacific line at
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Coast and West Coast that simply read, "DONE". Travel from coast to coast was reduced from six months or more to just one week.
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during the war. Most of the semi-skilled workers on the Union Pacific were recruited from the many soldiers discharged from the
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covers the construction of the transcontinental railroad and features key figures such as Thomas Durant and Collis Huntington.
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through California's Truckee Canyon provide a panoramic view of many miles of the original Central Pacific line and of the
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which was a lone tree alongside the track 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from Omaha. A historic marker has been placed there.
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speedy and direct means of intercourse than is at present afforded by the route through the possessions of a foreign power.
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that had a narrow "guitar neck" of land that crossed the mountains without serious erosion at the so-called "gangplank" (
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survey, finance and engineer the road. Judah returned to Washington in December 1859. He had a lobbying office in the
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Pride and pitfalls along the coast to coast track, by Michael Kenney. Boston Globe. January 10, 2000. A book review:
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to and from Panama, this shortcut could be traveled in as little as 40 days. Supplies were normally offloaded at the
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area, they were put aboard river paddle steamers which transported them up the final 130 miles (210 km) of the
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a few miles east of Promontory. The sweeping curve which connected to the east end of the Big Fill now passes a
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arrived in San Francisco via the first transcontinental railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after it had left
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the advantage of good workers employed at low wages: "Chinese labor proved to be Central Pacific's salvation."
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corridor, lands for additional facilities like sidings and maintenance yards. They were also granted alternate
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from 1867 until 1869. During this time he would push for legislation to help the construction of the railroad.
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as president of the railroad. While serving as vice president of Union Pacific he would be a key figure in the
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under the direction of skilled non-Chinese supervisors. The Chinese were commonly referred to at the time as "
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herd of cows to be moved with the railhead and bunk cars to provide fresh meat. Hunters were hired to provide
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controlled by the end of the war. The Union Pacific also utilized their experience repairing and building
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Theodore Judah, architect of the transcontinental railroad and first chief engineer of the Central Pacific
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for transport across the Bay to San Francisco. The road's rail terminus was moved two months later to the
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on the river. After completion, this became another major east–west railroad. To speed completion of the
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in his 1843 expedition across Wyoming, and was already being exploited by Utah residents from towns like
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line from Promontory for about $ 2.8 million in 1870, it ended the short period of a boom town for
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instead of Salt Lake City. The railroad crosses the Wasatch Mountains via a much gentler grade through
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into the new state of Nevada. The elevation change from Sacramento (elev. 40 ft or 12 m) to
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The construction of the transcontinental railroad provides the setting for the AMC television series
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was nominally only a vice president of Union Pacific, so he installed a series of respected men like
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bridges had to be built. This gave them a head start on getting to the "easy" miles across Nevada.
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King, R. Joe. "Nevada Survey Maps," Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum website.
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has a whole segment devoted to the construction; one of the movie's most famous scenes, filmed in
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Iron Rails, Iron Men, and the race to link the nation: The story of the transcontinental railroad
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in Kansas City which was the first bridge to cross the Missouri River. This in turn connected to
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Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad.
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Province of China, which at the time, beside great poverty, suffered from the violence of the
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linked to archived version, page not available as of February 2023. Originally accessed 2009
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named president of the Union Pacific, while he became president of Crédit Mobilier.
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The Central Pacific & The Southern Pacific Railroads: Centennial Edition
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Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900
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The Use of Black Powder and Nitroglycerine on the transcontinental railroad
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Profile of the Pacific Railroad from Council Bluffs/Omaha to San Francisco.
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customary cost for track work. The process mired down Union Pacific work.
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CPRR snow galleries allowed construction to continue in heavy snow (1868).
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4324:"PBS American Experience – Transcontinental Railroad – Whitney Biography"
4213:. New York: Chartwell Books (US) / Bassingbourn: Worth Press (UK); 2010.
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documents the railway in the episode titled "Transcontinental Railroad".
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4592:"PBS American Experience – Transcontinental Railroad – Durant Biography"
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featured the transcontinental railroad in a 2010 BBC audiobook entitled
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For maps and railroad pictures of this era shortly after the advent of
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6285:"Eureka County, Yucca Mountain Existing Transportation Corridor Study"
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The Great Iron Trail: The Story of the First Transcontinental Railroad
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Comstock, David Allan. "Charles Marsh: Our Neglected Pioneer-Genius,"
4277:"Report of the Select Committee on the Pacific Railroad and Telegraph"
4153:(2nd ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 50.
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2,391,009 acres (967,607 hectares) had been patented as of March 1876.
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Lewis M. Clement, Chief Assistant Engineer and Superintendent of Track
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One of the most prominent champions of the central route railroad was
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6588:"I Hear the Locomotives: The Impact of the Transcontinental Railroad"
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5404:"The Quest to Protect California's Transcontinental Railroad Tunnels"
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The Chinese and the iron road: Building the transcontinental railroad
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Pacific Railway Act and related resources at the Library of Congress
5915:"Period construction images of snowsheds at Cisco and Donner Summit"
5070:"Transcontinental Railroad – Construction, Competition & Impact"
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Golden spike, one of four ceremonial spikes driven at the completion
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before turning northwest along Lodgepole Creek into Wyoming. In the
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Geography of Chinese Workers Building the Transcontinental Railroad
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Abandoned route of the transcontinental railroad in Utah (with map)
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5658:(New ed.). Urbana: University of Illinois Press. p. 261.
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Gorman, Richard. "An Early Nevada City Odd Fellow," October, 2017.
3830:, pp. 9–10, New York: Brown & Hewitt, Printers. September 1868.
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First U.S. railroad connecting the Pacific coast and Eastern states
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Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
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Guidebook of the Western United States, Part B. The Overland Route
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Railroaded: The transcontinentals and the making of modern America
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12 Volumes. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1855–61
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5294:"Sun Pictures of Rocky Mountain Scenery, Photographic Collection"
4651:(10th ed.). United States: South-Western. pp. 313–314.
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Panic on Wall Street: A History of America's Financial Disasters
5620:"PBS – General Article: Workers of the Central Pacific Railroad"
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Lewis Metzler Clement: A Pioneer of the Central Pacific Railroad
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San Francisco in the 1930s: The WPA Guide to the City by the Bay
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The feat is depicted in various movies, including the 1939 film
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5700:. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book Company. pp. 328–329.
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Smithsonian's NMAH – Anniversary Exhibition Press Release 1999
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San Francisco: Thomas Hill (privately published). January 1881.
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The CPRR grade at Donner Summit as it appeared in 1869 and 2003
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and went down the rugged Echo Canyon (Summit County, Utah) and
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Harris, Robert L., "The Pacific Railroad – Unopen".
4824:"Chinese Laborers and the Construction of the Central Pacific"
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present-day New York-to-San Francisco transport link (highway)
2547:. Most of the other deviations are in mountainous areas where
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escaping the aftermath of the American Civil War. Most of the
889:. Another act to supplement the first was passed in 1864. The
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Wheat, Carl I. "A Sketch of the Life of Theodore D. Judah,"
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The Kansas Pacific became part of the Union Pacific in 1880.
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Palace Sleeping Car", arrived at Sacramento on June 8, 1868.
2297:. From the end of the Humboldt, they continued east over the
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Pacific Railroad Bond, City and County of San Francisco, 1865
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Empire Express; Building the first Transcontinental Railroad
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Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad
5187:
Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad
4292:(pp. 286–297). New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. (2004). p. 288
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3952:"First Mortgage Bonds of the Central Pacific Railroad, 1867"
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from the south, roughly paralleling what would later become
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on September 6, 1869, where they transferred to the steamer
6184:. Brigham City, Utah: National Park Service. Archived from
4175:"Pacific Railroad Officially Completed on November 6, 1869"
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and reached the east side of the San Francisco Bay through
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valley west through Nebraska along the general path of the
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Chinese-American Contribution to transcontinental railroad
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Lee, Willis T.; Ralph W. Stone & Hoyt S. Gale (1916).
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United States National Park Service (September 28, 2002).
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https://www.nevadacityoddfellows.com/history/charlesmarsh/
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While not exactly accurate, John Ford's 1924 silent movie
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Durant later left the Union Pacific and a new rail baron,
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completed their transcontinental link to San Francisco by
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after the name of the principal passenger rail service to
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San Francisco's Chinatown; Chapter IV: Railroad Building
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Mormon workers on Union Pacific transcontinental tracks
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This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent
4126:. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 32.
3054:. The Western Pacific was originally chartered to go to
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Chinese labor proved to be Central Pacific's salvation.
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The San Francisco Bay Area: A Metropolis in Perspective
2163:. These works had started production in 1864 after the
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The railroad established many townships along the way:
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Iron Muse: Photographing the Transcontinental Railroad
5928:"People & Events: Thomas Clark Durant (1820–1885)"
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Chinese railroad workers greet a train on a snowy day.
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that operated over the length of the line until 1962.
6249:. Western National Parks Association. pp. 5–46.
6175:"Everlasting Steam: The Story of Jupiter and No. 119"
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In Memoriam, Theodore D. Judah, Died November 2, 1863
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Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
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6028:. Wheeling, West Virginia. March 26, 1872. p. 1
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Ambrose, Nothing Like It in the World, pp. 160, 201.
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4025:(38th Congress, 1st Session SENATE Ex. Doc. No. 27).
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in 2019. Today the site features replica engines of
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Leland Stanford and the officers of the CPRR in 1870
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History of rail transportation in the United States
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6660:A virtual reconstruction of the key historic sites
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4304:U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian.
2135:, going east over Donner Pass and down the rugged
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706:, and represented the Convention before Congress.
694:and hook up with rail lines coming from the East.
5045:"The First Transcontinental Railroad • Chapter 8"
4765:Chang, Gordon H; Fishkin, Shelley Fisher (2019).
4234:Washington, D.C., January 18, 1847, Centpacrr.com
3522:which aired in syndication from 1958 until 1959.
2939:in Sacramento. In perhaps the world's first live
1966:The tunnels were all made with the new dangerous
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954:, his business partner; James Bailey, a jeweler;
897:to be used in these federally financed railways.
751:Leland Stanford's official gubernatorial portrait
690:through the Sierra Nevada mountains to reach the
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5789:. New York: Appleton-Century Co. pp. 71–72.
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5300:Special Collections and Archives. Archived from
5255:, p. 401, New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
4637:The Central Pacific Photographic History Museum.
4436:p. 3, April 29, 1876, San Francisco, California.
4384:November 9, 1860, p. 2, Nevada City, California.
3240:Having been bypassed with the completion of the
3066:itself would have brought it into conflict with
2209:The Summit Tunnel at Donner Summit, West Portal
977:that he had contracted while traveling over the
755:Four northern California businessmen formed the
6481:. New York: Chartwell Books/Worth Press, 2010.
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4447:http://cprr.org/Museum/Maps/Nevada_Survey_Maps/
3771:List of heritage railroads in the United States
2943:event, the hammers and spike were wired to the
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2611:the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
1845:presence. Its location made it a good base for
920:the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
18:First Transcontinental Railroad (North America)
6479:"The Classic Western American Railroad Routes"
6287:. Eureka County – Yucca Mountain Project. 2005
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5932:American Experience: Transcontinental Railroad
4987:"North American Standard Time introduced 1883"
3535:, is of a buffalo stampede over the railroad.
2277:On June 18, 1868, the Central Pacific reached
710:discovery in a letter to Judah. Also in 1860,
300:Central Pacific Railroad Company of California
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5771:. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. p. 231.
4423:p. 3, March 22, 1860, Marysville, California.
3216:On June 4, 1876, an express train called the
2869:Annual Report of the General of the U.S. Army
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1536:meat from the large herds of American bison.
5892:. New York: Simmons-Boardman, (1950). Ch. 7.
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4211:The Classic Western American Railroad Routes
3757:History of rail transportation in California
3504:The 1939 movie is said to have inspired the
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1842:Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company
1487:bridge as it followed the north side of the
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5990:"See the "Lost" Golden Spike at the Museum"
5812:New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1962. pg. 222
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4769:. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
4482:"Thomas Clark Durant – American Experience"
4068:"Driving the Last Spike at Promontory, 1869
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3034:by heading south out of Sacramento through
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6567:1871 CPRR & UPRR Overland Railroad Map
5825:New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1962. pg.222
5724:. New York: McGraw-Hill. pp. 109–111.
5584:Constructing the Central Pacific Railroad
5099:. U of Minnesota Press. pp. 100–101.
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4408:Nevada County Historical Society Bulletin,
3366:rocket research and development facility.
2118:1864 advertisement for the opening of the
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7528:Omaha Rail and Commerce Historic District
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4557:"Financing the Transcontinental Railroad"
4462:p. 250, Volume IV, No. 3, September 1925.
3941:Pacific Railroad Act of 1862, §5 & §6
3932:Pacific Railroad Act of 1862, §2 & §3
3824:"best, most direct and practicable route"
2056:Learn how and when to remove this message
1568:. Here they built the "railroad" town of
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625:Legislation to begin construction of the
7694:1869 establishments in the United States
6646:Map of Union Pacific Railroad with Dates
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5852:Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering Magazine
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5011:Engineering and Technology History Wiki
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3776:Overland Route (Union Pacific Railroad)
3305:(who was cleared) and future President
3174:Great Trans-Continental Tourist's Guide
1924:, who camped in the locality in 1867),
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7518:Union Pacific Harriman Dispatch Center
7487:Burlington and Missouri River Railroad
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6574:Excursion to the 100th Meridian – 1866
6572:Union Pacific Railroad picture Museum
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4120:Works Progress Administration (2001).
4040:(2005), Polyglot Press, Philadelphia,
3279:and became the biggest scandal of the
3098:was obtained with the purchase of the
2072:Central Pacific Railroad at Cape Horn
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853:In February 1860, Iowa Representative
833:United States House of Representatives
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7719:History of United States expansionism
7559:Omaha and Southern Interurban Railway
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6593:Golden Spike National Historical Park
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4889:"Picture of black workers on the CPR"
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4794:. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
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4746:Workers of the Union Pacific Railroad
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4502:Thomas Durant was a born manipulator.
4488:. PBS – Official Site. Archived from
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3992:from the original on January 26, 2019
3962:from the original on January 26, 2019
3851:Pacific Railroad Act of 1862, et seq.
3649:Seven Wonders of the Industrial World
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3371:Golden Spike National Historical Park
1363:and across the very thinly populated
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7709:Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks
6641:Route map at the Library of Congress
6519:. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press.
6344:interview with David Haward Bain on
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4579:"The Iron Trail to the Golden Spike"
3671:and written for audio by Oli Smith.
2735:, docks where the railroad started.
2265:line until its 1996 merger with the
2038:adding citations to reliable sources
2009:
1404:adding citations to reliable sources
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432:The report did not include detailed
7590:Union Pacific Missouri River Bridge
7508:Original Union Pacific Headquarters
7482:Omaha, Lincoln and Beatrice Railway
7467:Omaha and Republican Valley Railway
6506:. USGS Bulletin 612. Archived from
6264:Goran, David (September 27, 2016).
6140:Williams, Carter (March 19, 2019).
5946:
5890:The First Transcontinental Railroad
5322:Deseret News March 17, 1869, page 1
5292:F.V. Hayden & Daniel M. Davis.
4622:
3655:The popular sci-fi television show
3510:Western television series starring
3312:The scandal broke in 1872 when the
3182:Union Pacific Missouri River Bridge
2336:laid 10 miles (16 km) of track
1470:Union Pacific Missouri River Bridge
739:Big Four (Central Pacific Railroad)
46:The ceremony for the driving of the
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7749:Railway lines in the United States
6455:Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
6371:The Story of the Latter-day Saints
6322:
6085:from the original on May 18, 2021.
5848:"Tunnels of the Pacific Railroad."
5697:The Story of the Latter-day Saints
5560:with former track 1 passing above.
5402:Parks, Shoshi (January 12, 2022).
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5097:Union Pacific: Volume I, 1862–1893
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4706:. The University of Chicago Press.
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2000:Crédit Mobilier of America scandal
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932:Cedar Rapids and Missouri Railroad
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314:settlements of Council Bluffs and
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7729:Rail transportation in California
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5999:California State Railroad Museum.
5751:
5739:"Alta California (San Francisco)"
5600:. Central Pacific Railroad Museum
5572:"Summit Tunnel & Donner Pass"
5335:. Central Pacific Railroad Museum
4966:"The Days They Changed the Gauge"
4940:. New York: W W Norton & Co.
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3418:setup across most of Nevada, the
3402:, a daily passenger service from
3106:and proceeding southwest through
2403:, and shortly thereafter, to the
1635:to the 8,200-foot (2,500 m)
1603:at the 7,412-foot (2,259 m)
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304:Promontory Summit, Utah Territory
7744:Railway lines in Omaha, Nebraska
7724:Rail lines receiving land grants
7538:Burlington Headquarters Building
6812:Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
6699:Rail transport in North America
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3627:Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
3189:Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad
2937:California State Railroad Museum
2898:California State Railroad Museum
2492:via Denver to Cheyenne in 1870.
2359:in California, Reno, Wadsworth,
2014:
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1353:First Transcontinental Telegraph
1179:, or offloaded the cargo at the
823:served as the chief engineer of
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541:Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad
284:Western Pacific Railroad Company
270:, with the Pacific coast at the
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7684:First transcontinental railroad
7503:First transcontinental railroad
6979:List of United States railroads
6310:Around the World in Eighty Days
6049:"Promontory After May 10, 1869"
5964:King, Gilbert (July 17, 2012).
5854:, January 5, 1870, pp. 418–423.
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3453:Around the World in Eighty Days
3275:, which saw the re-election of
2554:
2257:(which operated the CPRR-built
2025:needs additional citations for
1833:, to build a bridge across the
1391:needs additional citations for
1183:, where it was sent across via
767:, (1821–1900), Vice President;
732:
396:, who in 1847 submitted to the
256:first transcontinental railroad
35:First transcontinental railroad
6599:Union Pacific Railroad History
5598:"Central Pacific Railroad Map"
4028:
4004:
3917:
3862:dated January 27, 1879, in re
3793:
2989:east side of San Francisco Bay
2351:The CPRR route passed through
1686:) along the north bank of the
1479:Valley, the route bridged the
1346:Time zones and telegraph usage
988:
613:
484:A central route following the
116:, starting September 6, 1869;
13:
1:
7734:Rail transportation in Nevada
6604:The Transcontinental Railroad
4419:"Henness Pass Turnpike Co.,"
4380:"Railroad Route Discovered,"
3911:
3613:(2000) is a surveyor for the
2743:On January 8, 1863, Governor
2699:nailed down on the ties with
2443:, the new capital of Nevada.
2425:Virginia and Truckee Railroad
2073:
1446:, on the eastern side of the
1044:Union Pacific civil engineers
600:
186:1,912 mi (3,077 km)
7699:Railway lines opened in 1869
7472:South Omaha Terminal Railway
6937:United States Virgin Islands
6494:Journal of Economic History,
5767:Howard, Robert West (1962).
5124:Nothing Like It In the World
5120:Ambrose, Stephen E. (2000).
4912:September 1869. pp. 244–252.
4209:Cooper, Bruce Clement (Ed),
3544:Once Upon a Time in the West
3082:and later still Interstates
3022:The original route from the
2951:
2739:Central Pacific construction
1896:west into what would become
1213:to the new state capital in
1051:Chinese Labor Strike of 1867
867:Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
815:Maj. Gen. Grenville M. Dodge
587:, also controlled by Durant.
7:
7739:Rail transportation in Utah
6515:Sandler, Martin W. (2015).
6409:Bain, David Haward (1999).
6008:Central Pacific snow sheds
5356:accessed February 26, 2013.
5225:Ambrose, Stephen E (2001).
4530:12 Stat. 489, July 1, 1862.
4369:The Ditches of Nevada City,
4302:Gadsden Purchase, 1853–1854
4221:; BINC: 3099794. pp. 44–45.
3700:
3100:California Pacific Railroad
2630:emigrant workers from China
1904:(Wyoming) the new towns of
1355:which followed much of the
1306:. Alternatively, cargo was
1079:armies along with emigrant
1042:See this list for names of
791:Former ophthalmologist Dr.
329:") with a silver hammer at
120:, starting November 8, 1869
10:
7775:
6011:accessed January 28, 2009.
5888:Galloway, C.E., John Debo
5694:; Glen M. Leonard (1976).
5251:Stewart, George R. (1970)
4367:Lindars, Dom. Manuscript,
3652:in episode 6, "The Line".
3263:
3172:Frontispiece of Crofutt's
2900:in Sacramento, California.
2882:
2806:Union Pacific construction
2715:. Some freight was put on
1048:
1041:
846:
771:, (1813–1878), Treasurer;
763:, (1824–1893), President;
736:
676:Sacramento Valley Railroad
644:
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258:(known originally as the "
7754:Southern Pacific Railroad
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6912:Saint Pierre and Miquelon
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6496:73 (March 2013), 177–200.
6451:Chang, Gordon H. (2019).
6334:
6329:
6243:Dowty, Robert R. (1994).
5865:"James Harvey Strobridge"
5720:Griswold, Wesley (1962).
5529:East end of Tunnel 41 at
4831:Utah Historical Quarterly
3858:in Part I of the Court's
3781:Transcontinental railroad
3600:by the film's antagonist
3568:The 1993 children's book
3389:Current passenger service
3231:Southern Pacific Railroad
3118:by means of the enormous
2984:railroad of the same name
2879:The "Last Spike" ceremony
2255:Southern Pacific Railroad
1849:to couple to trains with
938:Central Pacific financing
843:Authorization and funding
793:Thomas Clark "Doc" Durant
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6932:Turks and Caicos Islands
6394:. Simon & Schuster.
6374:. Salt Lake City, Utah:
6210:Promontory's Locomotives
5587:accessed March 13, 2013.
5442:accessed March 19, 2013.
5430:accessed March 19, 2013.
5392:accessed March 19, 2013.
5389:California Powder Works
5368:accessed March 10, 2013.
5282:accessed March 15, 2013.
5270:accessed August 2, 2013.
5145:accessed March 14, 2013.
4790:Chang, Gordon H (2019).
4755:accessed March 28, 2013.
4542:accessed March 25, 2013.
4434:San Francisco Chronicle,
4432:"Another Pioneer Gone,"
4421:Daily National Democrat,
3886:Northern Pacific Railway
3787:
3615:Central Pacific Railroad
3561:(published in the UK as
3219:Transcontinental Express
3142:which ultimately became
3046:, then climbed over the
2980:Western Pacific Railroad
2853:William Tecumseh Sherman
2596:
1995:Central Pacific Railroad
1803:41.103803°N 105.454797°W
1721:41.099746°N 105.153205°W
1662:41.131281°N 105.398045°W
1171:and passenger cars, and
968:Central Pacific Railroad
893:of 1863 established the
765:Collis Potter Huntington
757:Central Pacific Railroad
743:Central Pacific Railroad
507:A southern route across
500:, following most of the
422:Pacific Railroad Surveys
6576:accessed March 1, 2013.
6208:Best, Gerald M (1980).
6197:"Golden Spike Pictures"
5754:High Road to Promontory
5380:Accessed July 23, 2009.
5189:, by David Haward Bain.
5176:accessed March 5, 2013.
5164:accessed March 8, 2013.
5160:April 14, 2012, at the
5155:Discovery of Evans Pass
5034:accessed March 8, 2013.
4936:White, Richard (2011).
4751:March 23, 2017, at the
4702:Miller, Daegan (2018).
3581:The Great Railroad Race
3444:Promontory Summit, Utah
3266:Crédit Mobilier scandal
3114:, where it crossed the
3070:. The railroad entered
2486:Kansas Pacific Railroad
2477:Kansas Pacific Railroad
1333:flat-bottomed modified
1013:(1861–1863) passed the
913:Union Pacific financing
801:Crédit Mobilier scandal
684:Placerville, California
631:Memorial of Asa Whitney
404:Preliminary exploration
165:; 155 years ago
53:Promontory Summit, Utah
7759:Union Pacific Railroad
7574:Omaha Traction Company
7477:Omaha Southern Railway
7447:Omaha Traction Company
7345:Webster Street Station
6862:British Virgin Islands
6474:Cooper, Bruce Clement
6314:Oxford Worlds Classics
6203:on September 30, 2011.
5869:freepages.rootsweb.com
5353:Promontory Summit-NPS
5231:. Simon and Schuster.
5095:Klein, Maury (2006) .
5032:Union Pacific Timeline
4822:Kraus, George (1969).
4717:Haupt, Herman (1864).
4326:. WGBH. Archived from
3607:The main character in
3480:
3479:, released in May 1939
3473:Postcard for the film
3408:San Francisco Bay Area
3404:Emeryville, California
3261:
3201:Denver Pacific Railway
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2837:as construction boss.
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2374:Union Pacific Railroad
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1570:North Platte, Nebraska
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7547:Public transportation
7411:Chicago Great Western
7391:Norfolk & Western
6981:by political division
6802:Saint Kitts and Nevis
6316:, 1995, Introduction.
6122:, Beard Books, 1999,
5823:The Great Iron Trail.
5810:The Great Iron Trail.
5652:Arrington, Leonard J.
5298:Utah State University
5049:penelope.uchicago.edu
4910:The Overland Monthly,
4540:Pacific Railroad Acts
4230:Carver, Dr. Hartwell
3896:on September 8, 1883.
3687:The campaign mode of
3472:
3456:, published in 1873.
3375:Union Pacific No. 119
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2957:Railroad developments
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2465:Kansas City, Missouri
2451:started building the
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2006:Central Pacific route
1859:Kansas City, Missouri
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7513:Union Pacific Center
6376:Deseret Book Company
6268:. The Vintage News.
5470:39.3176°N 120.3584°W
5408:Smithsonian Magazine
5253:American Place-Names
5076:. September 11, 2019
4330:on December 6, 2019.
3743:United States portal
3622:DreamWorks Animation
3528:How the West Was Won
3377:and Central Pacific
2505:Salt Lake City, Utah
2417:San Jose, California
2034:improve this article
1587:valley, went up the
1529:John "Jack" Casement
1444:Council Bluffs, Iowa
1400:improve this article
1365:Central Nevada Route
1227:Council Bluffs, Iowa
1003:checkerboard pattern
891:Pacific Railroad Act
879:Council Bluffs, Iowa
873:in the west and the
787:Dr. Thomas C. Durant
569:Council Bluffs, Iowa
537:St. Joseph, Missouri
513:New Mexico Territory
268:Council Bluffs, Iowa
262:" and later as the "
101:Council Bluffs, Iowa
7689:1860s in California
7569:Omaha Horse Railway
7564:Omaha Cable Tramway
7523:Union Pacific Shops
7371:Burlington Northern
7310:34th Street Station
6817:Trinidad and Tobago
6712:Antigua and Barbuda
6664:Stanford University
6581:The Pacific Tourist
6384:Ambrose, Stephen E.
5741:. November 9, 1868.
5548:39.301°N 120.3003°W
5544: /
5509:39.3116°N 120.269°W
5505: /
5490:Shed 47 visible at
5466: /
5333:"Union Pacific Map"
5304:on January 12, 2007
5174:Gankplank discovery
5143:North Platte Bridge
5013:. November 23, 2017
4996:– Retrieved March 4
4382:The Nevada Journal,
4147:Scott, Mel (1985).
3691:'s 2018 video game
3636:American Experience
3602:Dr. Arliss Loveless
3422:will switch to the
3416:directional running
3271:proportions in the
3205:Strasburg, Colorado
3068:competing interests
3001:Oakland, California
2933:Stanford University
2677:CPRR Tunnel#3 near
2549:interstate highways
2523:and passes through
2469:Kansas City, Kansas
2413:Oakland, California
2401:Alameda, California
2393:Lathrop, California
2235:Truckee, California
1977:The tracks reached
1855:Kansas City, Kansas
1817:Dale Creek Crossing
1799: /
1717: /
1658: /
1372:Union Pacific route
1323:open hearth furnace
1165:railroad turntables
837:Iowa's 5th District
553:, accessed via the
551:Leavenworth, Kansas
547:Kansas City, Kansas
539:, accessed via the
394:Dr. Hartwell Carver
7457:Omaha Zoo Railroad
7320:Burlington Station
7296:Railroads in Omaha
6752:Dominican Republic
6540:Willumson, Glenn.
6458:Cooper, Bruce C.,
6415:. Viking Penguin.
5995:July 24, 2012, at
5475:39.3176; -120.3584
4992:2011-06-30 at the
4492:on August 27, 2019
4034:Cooper, Bruce C.,
3481:
3438:In popular culture
3262:
3235:U.S. Supreme Court
3178:
3120:Solano train ferry
2982:(unrelated to the
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2929:Cantor Arts Center
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1972:Thousand Mile Tree
1922:John Aaron Rawlins
1894:South Platte River
1847:helper locomotives
1781:
1688:South Platte River
1682:(then part of the
1676:Nebraska Territory
1621:South Platte River
1601:Continental Divide
1589:North Platte River
1577:Grenville M. Dodge
1562:South Platte River
1558:North Platte River
1522:Grenville M. Dodge
1466:Nebraska Territory
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7704:American frontier
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7635:Related templates
7621:Nebraska Rail Car
7595:East Omaha Bridge
7376:Canadian National
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6477:
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6191:on April 5, 2015.
6081:. March 5, 2019.
5901:Cooper, Bruce C.
5632:on March 18, 2017
5553:39.301; -120.3003
5514:39.3116; -120.269
5200:"UP construction"
4633:Cooper, Bruce C.
4577:Stewart, John J.
3860:Opinion and Order
3664:The Runaway Train
3577:Kristiana Gregory
3540:Spaghetti Western
3450:'s book entitled
3420:California Zephyr
3399:California Zephyr
3246:World War II
3096:more direct route
3040:San Joaquin River
3038:and crossing the
2914:Promontory Summit
2759:Taiping Rebellion
2725:Isthmus of Panama
2679:Cisco, California
2650:Taiping Rebellion
2615:Piedmont, Wyoming
2591:steam locomotives
2529:Wasatch Mountains
2345:steam locomotives
2329:. Train fuel and
2323:steam locomotives
2319:Promontory Summit
2291:forty mile desert
2287:Wadsworth, Nevada
2108:South Yuba Rivers
2102:on the south and
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1952:Wasatch Mountains
1822:Chicago, Illinois
1779:Dale Creek Bridge
1770:steam locomotives
1766:Kemmerer, Wyoming
1700:Laramie Mountains
1680:Wyoming Territory
1508:Fremont, Nebraska
1501:California Trails
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1207:San Francisco Bay
1181:Isthmus of Panama
1173:steam locomotives
1161:railroad switches
1105:Pearl River Delta
1101:Sze Yup districts
1032:Andrew J. Russell
983:Isthmus of Panama
943:Collis Huntington
901:Federal financing
887:San Francisco Bay
829:Laramie Mountains
680:Mississippi River
418:Department of War
331:Promontory Summit
276:San Francisco Bay
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3499:Cecil B. DeMille
3497:and directed by
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3424:Central Corridor
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6807:Saint Lucia
6757:El Salvador
6555:photography
6152:January 31,
5934:. PBS. 2003
5604:February 5,
5574:. CPRR.org.
5551: /
5539:120°18′01″W
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5473: /
5461:120°21′30″W
5339:February 5,
5128:. pp.
4971:October 10,
3996:January 26,
3966:January 26,
3890:Great Lakes
3884:Later, the
3682:Colm Meaney
3512:Jeff Morrow
3491:Joel McCrea
3489:, starring
3448:Jules Verne
3148:rail bridge
2723:across the
2701:spike mauls
2603:Confederate
2510:Modern-day
2459:across the
2441:Carson City
2218:Donner Lake
2199:wheelbarrow
2088:Donner Pass
2077: 1880
1979:Ogden, Utah
1961:Ogden, Utah
1956:Weber River
1934:Green River
1926:Green River
1916:(named for
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1794:105°27′17″W
1724: /
1712:105°09′12″W
1665: /
1653:105°23′53″W
1340:steel rails
1077:Confederate
1046:(1863–1869)
989:Land grants
723:Donner Pass
692:Great Basin
620:Asa Whitney
614:Asa Whitney
521:Los Angeles
192:Track gauge
183:Line length
141:Operator(s)
7678:Categories
7657:Streetcars
7645:Boulevards
7496:Facilities
7462:Omaha Road
7366:Burlington
7221:Washington
7141:New Mexico
7136:New Jersey
7011:California
6892:Montserrat
6887:Martinique
6882:Guadeloupe
6737:Costa Rica
6470:1411599934
6444:083107034X
6422:067080889X
6401:0684846098
6118:, p. 193,
6032:January 5,
5674:2004015281
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5536:39°18′04″N
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5458:39°19′03″N
5451:Norden at
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5106:1452908737
4658:0324226365
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4046:1411599934
3912:References
3669:Matt Smith
3667:, read by
3658:Doctor Who
3588:Will Smith
3428:Winnemucca
3426:at either
3349:snow sheds
3292:Oakes Ames
3281:Gilded Age
3260:Oakes Ames
3159:snow sheds
3013:passengers
2941:mass-media
2821:'s uniform
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2799:snow sheds
2667:bunkhouses
2634:Celestials
2578:Union Army
2517:Echo, Utah
2378:Promontory
2361:Winnemucca
2246:snow sheds
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2222:Lake Tahoe
1791:41°06′14″N
1709:41°05′59″N
1650:41°07′53″N
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1633:Crow Creek
1605:South Pass
1485:Loup River
1236:After the
1215:Sacramento
1049:See also:
881:, west to
688:Sacramento
601:Key people
597:Nebraska.
494:South Pass
446:New Mexico
438:Gila River
387:West Coast
254:America's
170:1869-05-10
7231:Wisconsin
7196:Tennessee
7101:Minnesota
7076:Louisiana
6877:Greenland
6792:Nicaragua
6767:Guatemala
6342:Booknotes
6166:Sources:
5975:April 10,
5210:August 3,
5080:March 14,
5054:March 14,
4859:254449682
4727:August 1,
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3610:The Claim
3324:Jay Gould
3184:in 1872.
3124:San Pablo
3060:Peninsula
2952:Aftermath
2945:telegraph
2713:Cape Horn
2662:fishplate
2646:Guangdong
2353:Newcastle
2327:windmills
2250:snowplows
1898:Julesburg
1851:snowplows
1826:elevation
1452:President
1351:original
1298:required
1287:5 ft
1177:Cape Horn
1109:Guangdong
1099:) in the
232:Route map
178:Technical
7416:Soo Line
7216:Virginia
7166:Oklahoma
7146:New York
7121:Nebraska
7111:Missouri
7096:Michigan
7086:Maryland
7071:Kentucky
7051:Illinois
7026:Delaware
7016:Colorado
7006:Arkansas
6842:Anguilla
6777:Honduras
6747:Dominica
6722:Barbados
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6386:(2000).
6368:(1976).
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3990:Archived
3960:Archived
3701:See also
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3563:Railroad
3533:Cinerama
3406:(in the
3360:Big Fill
3134:and the
3132:Richmond
3130:bays to
3056:San Jose
3044:Mossdale
3036:Stockton
3007:, where
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2783:derricks
2727:. Using
2482:Colorado
2463:between
2231:railcars
2139:valley.
2046:May 2016
1930:Evanston
1920:General
1906:Cheyenne
1890:Colorado
1882:Ogallala
1692:Cheyenne
1412:May 2016
1272: in
1187:and the
1081:Irishmen
1011:Congress
999:sections
947:hardware
527:in 1853.
490:Nebraska
211: in
63:Overview
7662:Streets
7652:Bridges
7583:Bridges
7236:Wyoming
7211:Vermont
7116:Montana
7056:Indiana
7036:Georgia
7031:Florida
7001:Arizona
6991:Alabama
6872:Curaçao
6857:Bonaire
6852:Bermuda
6782:Jamaica
6762:Grenada
6717:Bahamas
6595:in Utah
6236:YouTube
6182:nps.gov
6059:May 10,
6022:"Omaha"
5938:May 10,
5752:Kraus.
5130:217–219
5074:HISTORY
4486:PBS.org
3892:to the
3412:Chicago
3379:Jupiter
3364:Thiokol
3155:Sierras
3112:Benicia
3076:Oakland
3072:Alameda
3026:to the
3009:freight
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2991:at the
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2565:Jupiter
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2259:Oakland
1991:Corinne
1946:In the
1914:Rawlins
1910:Laramie
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1866:Fremont
1815:). The
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1696:Laramie
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373:Origins
367:Chicago
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7303:Depots
7171:Oregon
7126:Nevada
7066:Kansas
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6787:Mexico
6732:Canada
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6189:(PDF)
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3788:Notes
3590:film
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3032:Delta
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2851:Gen.
2597:Labor
2541:Ogden
2437:cords
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1918:Union
1462:Omaha
1327:rails
1154:1869.
1121:black
1073:Union
859:House
509:Texas
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7206:Utah
7161:Ohio
7061:Iowa
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6742:Cuba
6635:Maps
6521:ISBN
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6293:2010
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6154:2021
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