Pacific Railroad Acts of 1862 were a series of acts of Congress that promoted the construction of a "transcontinental railroad" (the Pacific Railroad)...

Party (Stanford was governor of California when the first of the Pacific Railroad Acts was passed.), and through monopolizing tactics. Contemporary critics...

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...

original company, Union Pacific Rail Road (UPRR), was created and funded by the federal government by Pacific Railroad Acts of 1862 and 1864. The laws...

The Union Pacific Railroad (reporting marks UP, UPP, UPY) is a Class I freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over 32,200 miles (51...

transcontinental railroad was the Panama Railroad of 1855.) Its construction was made possible by the US government under Pacific Railroad Acts of 1862, 1864...

support railroad projects. The Illinois Central received nearly 2.6 million acres of land in Illinois. The main laws, known as the Pacific Railroad Acts, were...

be narrow-gauge. The Pacific Railroad Acts of 1863 specified standard gauge. Notable exceptions were the 6 ft (1,829 mm) railroads that predominated in...

headquarters in Dallas, Texas. Established in 1865 under the name Union Pacific Railroad (UP), Southern Branch, it came to serve an extensive rail network in...

The Western Pacific Railroad (1862–1870) was formed in 1862 to build a railroad from Sacramento, California, to the San Francisco Bay, the westernmost...

the first transcontinental railroad "from the Missouri river to the Pacific ocean" in accordance with the Pacific Railroad Acts. In 1863, Alfred A. Cohen...

Southern Pacific Railroad Company, 118 U.S. 394 (1886), is a corporate law case of the United States Supreme Court concerning taxation of railroad properties...

The Pacific Railroad Surveys (1853–1855) were a series of explorations of the American West designed to find and document possible routes for a transcontinental...

bank Crédit Mobilier. In the Pacific Railroad Acts of 1864–68, Congress authorized and chartered the Union Pacific Railroad and provided $100 million (equivalent...

Canadian National Railway Canadian Pacific Kansas City CSX Transportation Norfolk Southern Railway Union Pacific Railroad This list includes diverse financial...

transcontinental railroad across the United States connecting the Central Pacific Railroad from Sacramento and the Union Pacific Railroad from Omaha on May...

as well as Tucson, Arizona. Opening in 1894 through the Southern Pacific Railroad, Sunset Limited is the oldest continuously operating named train in...

entities is the railroad grants made under the Pacific Railroad Acts to compensate the railroad companies for building a transnational railroad across America...

codified federal transportation policy with the enactment of several Pacific Railroad Acts in the 1860s to support westward expansion. The Office of Public...

Telegraphs. The Government Preparing to Protect Its Interest Under the Pacific Railroad Acts" (PDF). New York Times. 1880-04-05. Klein, Maury (1997). The Life...

of two railways: the Union Pacific to the west, and the Central Pacific to go east. Before signing the Pacific Railroad Acts into law, Lincoln asks Miriam...

the Federal Railroad Administration. Amtrak is a government-owned corporation responsible for intercity rail. Several Pacific Railroad Acts were passed...

Abraham Lincoln signs into law the Pacific Railroad Acts, authorizing construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad. The Russian State Library is founded...

conveyance made by the Kansas Pacific Railroad Company to Dunmeyer. The Pacific Railroad Acts generally allowed railroads to sell public land adjacent...

Transcontinental Railroad. President Abraham Lincoln supported a transcontinental railroad to Northern California, and in 1862 signed the Pacific Railroad Acts to begin...

transcontinental railroad. This legislation formed the basis of the Pacific Railway Acts enacted in 1862, which granted a charter to the Union Pacific Railroad Company...

Lincoln supported a transcontinental railroad to Northern California, and in 1862 signed the Pacific Railroad Acts to begin construction. The Sierra Nevada...

growth of local railroads and governmental action in the United States, including Abraham Lincoln's Pacific Railroad Acts, caused railroads to become a major...

"National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Northern Pacific Railroad Completion Site, 1883". National Register of Historic Places. Weiser...

competition with its transcontinental rivals, the Union Pacific and Kansas Pacific Railroads. The lease went into effect on December 13, 1878, and the...