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Central Pacific Railroad è l'antico nome della compagnia che costruì una rete ferroviaria tra la California e lo Utah partendo dalla parti orientali della West Coast degli Stati Uniti d'America negli anni sessanta del XIX secolo a completamento della parte occidentale della First Transcontinental Railroad del Nord America. È infine confluita ...
- 1959 confluita in Southern Pacific.
- Stati Uniti
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
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
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.
Storia. Le origini del progetto: la scelta della Linea Centrale. Nel 1862 il Congresso degli Stati Uniti d'America approvò con forti contrasti il Pacific Railroad Act, ratificato dalla presidenza di Abraham Lincoln, che stabiliva la costruzione di una linea ferroviaria che unisse la West Coast alle ferrovie preesistenti della costa atlantica [1] .
- First Transcontinental Railroad
- Omaha
Contents. hide. (Top) Early life and education. Career. Pacific railroad surveys. Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) Death. Legacy and honors. See also. References. External links. Theodore Judah. Sketch of the Sacramento Valley RR as provided by its engineer, Theodore Judah.
Official name. Jupiter. First run. March 20, 1869. Disposition. Original scrapped in 1909; replica built in 1979 and is operational at the Golden Spike N.H.P. The Jupiter (officially known as Central Pacific Railroad #60) was a 4-4-0 steam locomotive owned by the Central Pacific Railroad.
