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To accommodate this new dilemma, the J.F Hart and Company (owned by John and George Hart) began planning and construction for the Tacoma Eastern Railroad. [ 2 ] In its pre-incorporation phase, the Tacoma Eastern Railroad was a 30-inch narrow gauge logging road, about two miles long, running from a shallow-water wharf at the head of Commencement ...
Chicago, Fort Wayne and Eastern Railroad (CFE) Chicago, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad (CSP) Cicero Central Railroad (CECR) Cimarron Valley Railroad (CVR) Cincinnati Eastern Railroad (CCET) City of Prineville Railway (COP) Clackamas Valley Railroad (CVLY) Clarendon and Pittsford Railroad (CLP) Cleveland and Cuyahoga Railroad (CCRL) Cleveland Port ...
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]
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The first of these, the 3,103 km (1,928 mi) "Pacific Railroad", was built by the Central Pacific Railroad and Union Pacific Railroad, as well as the Western Pacific Railroad (1862-1870), to link the San Francisco Bay at Alameda, California, with the nation's existing eastern railroad network at Omaha, Nebraska/Council Bluffs, Iowa — thereby ...
Other narrow gauge routes in Utah were later absorbed by the Union Pacific and its subsidiaries. Union Pacific made use of Ramsey car transfers through-out Utah and Idaho to account for gauge changes in the region. [15] [16] Utah and Northern Railway historical marker in Idaho.
On August 21, 1905, the Oregon Eastern Railway was incorporated in the interest of the SP and Union Pacific Railroad (UP), [4] then both controlled by E. H. Harriman. This company surveyed a route from a line of SP lessor Oregon and California Railroad at Natron, near Springfield, over the Cascades in the direction of the UP near Ontario, Oregon.
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