Central Pacific Railroad and Union Pacific Railroad Company.
central pacific and union pacific railroad companies
union pacific and central pacific
It was built by private enterprise, while Europeans railroads were government projects.
It was built by private enterprise, while Europeans railroads were government projects.
It was built by private enterprise, while Europeans railroads were government projects.
It was built by the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads. It's assumed that they used it.
Central Pacific Railroad and Union Pacific Railroad Company.
The Federal government paid the two railroad companies that built it by granting them sections (one square mile) on alternating sides of any tracks that they built. The railroad companies could do whatever they wanted with this land and often sold it off. Many other western railroads were later funded the same way.
The Union and Central Pacific Railroads with sudsidies from the U.S. government
The transcontinental railroad was built by the Union Pacific Railroad going west from Omaha, Nebraska. They built their part of the railroad to Promontory, Utah. The Central Pacific Railroad built the other part of the transcontinental railroad starting in Sacramento, California and built east meeting the Union Pacific Railroad.
Value engineering.
Union Pacific (east) & Central Pacific (west).