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August 12: Union Pacific Railroad subsidiary Missouri Pacific Railroad acquires control of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad. [48] September: New Canadian Pacific Ltd. subsidiary Canadian Atlantic Railway takes over all CP operations east of Megantic, Quebec, including the former International Railway of Maine. [49]
In July 1862 President Abraham Lincoln signed the Pacific Railroad Act into law, which chartered a new organization called the Union Pacific Railroad. It was authorized to build a single line west from an "initial point" at the 100-degree meridian (near present-day Lexington, Nebraska ). [ 2 ]
The California Pacific Railroad Company (abbreviated Cal. P. R. R. or Cal-P) was incorporated in 1865 at San Francisco, California as the California Pacific Rail Road Company. It was renamed the California Pacific Railroad Extension Company in the spring of 1869, then renamed the California Pacific Railroad later that same year.
Atlanta and West Point Railroad (AWP), owned by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad; Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad [34] (CORP) New York, Ontario & Western (NYOW) Lehigh and Hudson River Railway (LHR) Lehigh and New England Railroad (LNE) Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad (BLE), owned by Canadian National Railway [35]
Buffalo, Corning and New York Railroad: Buffalo, Corning and New York Railroad: ERIE: 1852 1857 Buffalo, New York and Erie Railroad: Buffalo, Corry and Pittsburgh Railroad: PRR: 1867 1872 Dunkirk, Chautauqua Lake and Pittsburgh Railroad: Buffalo Creek Railroad: BCK ERIE/ LV: 1869 1983 Consolidated Rail Corporation: Buffalo Creek Transfer ...
Empire Express: Building the first transcontinental railroad. Viking Press, New York, NY. ISBN 0-670-80889-X. Beebe, Lucius (1965). The Central Pacific & The Southern Pacific Railroads: Centennial Edition. Howell-North Books, Berkeley, CA. Brands, H. W. (2003). The age of gold: the California Gold Rush and the new American dream. New York ...
The Overland Limited leaving 16th Street station (Oakland), in 1906. The Overland Route was a train route operated jointly by the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad/Southern Pacific Railroad, between the eastern termini of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Omaha, Nebraska, [1] and the San Francisco Bay Area, over the grade of the first transcontinental railroad (aka the "Pacific ...
Construction of the road was financed primarily by 30-year, 6% U.S. government bonds authorized by Sec. 5 of the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862.They were issued at the rate of $16,000 ($265,000 in 2017 dollars) per mile of tracked grade completed east of the designated base of the Sierra Nevada range near Roseville, CA where California state geologist Josiah Whitney had determined were the ...