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Die Central Pacific Railroad war eine Eisenbahngesellschaft im Westen der Vereinigten Staaten. Sie entstand 1861 und ging durch ihre Beteiligung am Bau der ersten transkontinentalen Eisenbahnverbindung in die Geschichte der Eisenbahn in Nordamerika ein.
The Central Pacific Railroad ( CPRR) was a rail company chartered by U.S. Congress in 1862 to build a railroad eastwards from Sacramento, California, to complete most of the western part of the "First transcontinental railroad" in North America.
- June 28, 1861–April 1, 1885, continued as an SP leased line until June 30, 1959
- Southern Pacific
- Sacramento, CA; San Francisco, California
23. Apr. 2024 · Central Pacific Railroad, American railroad company founded in 1861 by a group of California merchants known later as the “Big Four” (Collis P. Huntington, Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker); they are best remembered for having built part of the first American transcontinental rail line.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Die zwischen 1863 und 1869 durch die Bahngesellschaften Central Pacific Railroad (CP) und Union Pacific Railroad (UP) erbauten Bahnstrecken Sacramento–Ogden (CP, 1110 Kilometer) und Omaha–Ogden (UP, 1746 Kilometer) trafen sich am 10. Mai 1869 am Promontory Summit.
Central Pacific Railroad at Cape Horn c. 1880. 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) Sierra Nevada mountains at Donner Pass into the new state of Nevada.
- 1,912 mi (3,077 km)
- Pacific Railroad
- May 10, 1869; 154 years ago
- U.S. Government
7. März 2024 · Learn about the Central Pacific Railroad, the western leg of the Transcontinental Railroad that linked the U.S. in 1869. Explore its route, construction, challenges, and legacy with photos and maps.
10. Mai 2019 · Die Präsidenten der Eisenbahngesellschaften Central Pacific Railroad und Union Pacific reichten sich im Blitzlichtgewitter der Fotografen feierlich die Hände und der kalifornische Gouverneur...
