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  2. Western Pacific Railroad - Wikipedia

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    The Western Pacific Railroad (reporting mark WP) was a Class I railroad in the United States. It was formed in 1903 as an attempt to break the near-monopoly the Southern Pacific Railroad had on rail service into northern California.

  3. Pacific Railroad Acts - Wikipedia

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    The Pacific Railroad Acts of ... 1865 ratified and confirmed the assignment made by Central Pacific Railroad to Western Pacific ... Railroad expansion provided new ...

  4. Western Pacific Railroad (1862–1870) - Wikipedia

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    San Francisco Pacific Railroad Bond (WPRR), 1865. The Western Pacific Railroad (1862–1870) was formed in December 1862 by a group led by Timothy Dame and including Charles McLaughlin and Peter Donahue, all associated with the San Francisco and San Jose Railroad (SF&SJ), to build a railroad from San Jose north to Niles (then called Vallejo Mills), east through Niles Canyon (then called ...

  5. Pacific Railroad Surveys - Wikipedia

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    In winter 1859-1860, Judah was in Washington D.C. lobbying for a Pacific Railroad bill; [18] California would hold a Pacific Railroad Convention in Sacramento on the first Monday that February. [19] Judah returned to California by July, [20] lobbied local newspapers for public support, [21] [22] and surveyed routes to at least [23] three [24 ...

  6. Railroad land grants in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Northern Pacific Railway (NP) was a transcontinental railroad that operated across the northern tier of the western states, from Minnesota to the Pacific Northwest. It was approved by Congress in 1864 and given nearly 40 million acres (62,000 sq mi; 160,000 km2) of land grants, which it used to raise money in Europe for construction.

  7. First transcontinental railroad - Wikipedia

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    America's first transcontinental railroad (known originally as the "Pacific Railroad" and later as the "Overland Route") was a 1,911-mile (3,075 km) continuous railroad line built between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Council Bluffs, Iowa, with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay. [1]

  8. Union Pacific's profit grows 9% as the railroad delivers more ...

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    The other major Western railroad, BNSF, would likely also have seen a big jump in shipments, but their results won't be public until their parent company, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway ...

  9. Kansas Pacific Railway - Wikipedia

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    The Kansas Pacific began in 1855 as the Leavenworth, Pawnee and Western Railroad, and was later reorganized in 1863 as the Union Pacific Eastern Division. The UP Eastern was authorized by the United States Congress as part of the Pacific Railway Act , in order to create a second southerly branch of the transcontinental railroad , alongside the ...