the "First transcontinental railroad" in North America. Incorporated in 1861, CPRR ceased independent operations in 1875 when the railroad was leased... 49 KB (5,574 words) - 04:41, 11 May 2024 |
where the U.S. wanted to build a transcontinental railroad along a deep southern route, which the Southern Pacific Railroad later completed in 1881–1883.... 68 KB (8,460 words) - 18:28, 5 April 2024 |
Pacific Railroad Acts of 1862 were a series of acts of Congress that promoted the construction of a "transcontinental railroad" (the Pacific Railroad) in... 15 KB (1,689 words) - 12:55, 2 May 2024 |
Niles Canyon Railway (category Heritage railroads in California) Canyon Railway (NCRy) is a heritage railway running on the first transcontinental railroad alignment (1866, 1869) through Niles Canyon, between Sunol and... 35 KB (3,306 words) - 21:38, 22 April 2024 |
Manifest destiny (section Transcontinental railroad) an important role in the development of the transcontinental railroad.[when?] The transcontinental railroad system is often used in manifest destiny imagery... 115 KB (13,902 words) - 17:52, 7 May 2024 |
through the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains of the First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States, built from the mid-continent at the Missouri... 7 KB (741 words) - 20:13, 9 April 2024 |
Golden spike (category First transcontinental railroad) first transcontinental railroad across the United States connecting the Central Pacific Railroad from Sacramento and the Union Pacific Railroad from Omaha... 34 KB (4,021 words) - 20:22, 10 May 2024 |
American frontier (section Transcontinental railroads) their land from railroads at low rates. The Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 provided for the land needed to build the transcontinental railroad. The land was... 256 KB (32,717 words) - 03:30, 9 May 2024 |
were joined in Utah on May 10, 1869, hence creating the first transcontinental railroad in North America. Interstate 80, built in the 1950s, paralleled... 62 KB (7,500 words) - 00:26, 25 March 2024 |
Collis Potter Huntington (category 19th-century American railroad executives) Theodore Judah's idea to build the Central Pacific Railroad as part of the first U.S. transcontinental railroad. Huntington helped lead and develop other major... 37 KB (4,517 words) - 14:16, 25 March 2024 |
trails between 1843 and 1869, and despite growing competition from transcontinental railroads, some use even continued into the early 20th century. The major... 24 KB (3,491 words) - 13:59, 8 May 2024 |
the construction of the transcontinental telegraph History of the first transcontinental telegraph Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum:... 9 KB (973 words) - 15:47, 31 January 2024 |
History of Chinese Americans (redirect from Chinese Railroad Workers) Central Pacific Railroad recruited large labor gangs, many on five-year contracts, to build its portion of the transcontinental railroad. The Chinese laborers... 122 KB (14,659 words) - 04:15, 9 May 2024 |
After the policy of giving land grants was ended. one profitable transcontinental railroad was built in the 1880s and 1890s without subsidies, the Great... 29 KB (3,861 words) - 12:57, 26 April 2024 |
follows the historical routes of the California Trail, first transcontinental railroad and Feather River Route throughout portions of Nevada. Throughout... 32 KB (1,564 words) - 20:19, 10 July 2023 |
wagons and cattle across the Missouri River. In 1869, the first transcontinental railroad to California was connected to the existing U.S. rail network... 61 KB (7,082 words) - 21:08, 30 April 2024 |
Charles Crocker (category 19th-century American railroad executives) westernmost portion of the first transcontinental railroad, and took control with partners of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Crocker was born in Troy, New... 19 KB (1,780 words) - 02:05, 17 April 2024 |
Western television series about the construction of the first transcontinental railroad across the United States, which broadcast in the United States... 79 KB (6,165 words) - 14:40, 7 May 2024 |
Bay, the westernmost portion of the First transcontinental railroad. After the completion of the railroad from Sacramento to Alameda Terminal on September... 31 KB (3,273 words) - 05:19, 5 May 2024 |
Great Northern Railway (U.S.) (redirect from Great northern transcontinental railway) developed from the Saint Paul & Pacific Railroad. The Great Northern's route was the northernmost transcontinental railroad route in the U.S. In 1970, the Great... 33 KB (3,343 words) - 05:25, 27 April 2024 |
The Gould transcontinental system was a system of railroads assembled by George Jay Gould I and the Fuller Syndicate in the early 1900s. This was Gould's... 8 KB (715 words) - 13:37, 29 April 2024 |
Theodore Judah (category First transcontinental railroad) establishment, and design of the First transcontinental railroad. He found investors for what became the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR). As chief engineer, he... 22 KB (2,551 words) - 22:23, 22 February 2024 |
Lathrop, California (category First transcontinental railroad) Lathrop was developed around railroad interests. The town was founded around 1868 when the first transcontinental railroad was extended to the area after... 25 KB (2,267 words) - 11:47, 11 May 2024 |