• The Central Overland Route (also known as the "Central Overland Trail", "Central Route", "Simpson's Route", or the "Egan Trail") was a transportation...
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    the Humboldt River trails was developed in 1859. This route, the Central Overland Route, which was about 280 miles (450 km) shorter and more than 10 days...
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    The Overland Route was a train route operated jointly by the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad/Southern Pacific Railroad, between...
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  • An Overland route or Overland trail may refer to: Overland Route (Australia), a shipping route via the Suez Canal Overland Route (Union Pacific Railroad)...
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    National Park. The route was constructed over a historic corridor, initially used for the Pony Express and Central Overland Route and later for the Lincoln...
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    The route, known as the Oxbow Route because of its long curving route through the Southwest, was 600 miles (970 km) longer than the Central Overland Trail...
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    was founded as a stagecoach station along the Pony Express and Central Overland Route. In 1906 copper was discovered. Ely's mining boom came later than...
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    superintendent along the Central Overland route for Hockaday & Co. (1858–59) and its successors Jones, Russell & Co. (1859) and Central Overland, California & Pike's...
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    Indian trail through northwest Indiana portions of the routes of the Cherokee Trail, Overland Trail and the Pony Express the Donner Pass crossing of the...
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  • Thumbnail for U.S. Route 50 in California
    U.S. Route 50 (US 50) is a transcontinental United States Numbered Highway, stretching from West Sacramento, California, in the west to Ocean City, Maryland...
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    State Route 65 (SR-65) is a 28.315-mile-long (45.569 km) state highway in northern Utah. It connects Interstate 80 (I-80) near the Mountain Dell Dam to...
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  • portions of the route had been used by explorers and trappers since the 1820s, the Overland Trail was most heavily used in the 1860s as a route alternative...
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  • George Chorpenning (category Central Overland Route)
    Sacramento, California and Salt Lake City, the most difficult leg of the first overland mail service. The mails were run once per month in each direction. It was...
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    the Overland) was an American named passenger train which for much of its history was jointly operated by three railroads on the Overland Route between...
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    Utah. Its purpose was to protect the overland mail route and telegraph lines along the Central Overland Route. It was officially closed in 1991 pursuant...
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    was generally derived from the route of the Pony Express and Central Overland Route. However, much of the original route of the Lincoln Highway west of...
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  • Route (1860–1862) Saint Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California Central Overland Route (1861–1869) Apache Pass Cumberland Gap Cooke's Pass, Massacre Canyon...
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    State Route 206 (SR 206) is a state highway in Douglas County, Nevada, United States. It runs northwest from State Route 88 near the California state line...
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    Thorpe Hills, it curves northeast, joining the historic Central Overland Trail (Pony Express route) through the pass and descending into the Cedar Valley...
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    Pony Express (category Central Overland Route)
    horse-mounted riders between Missouri and California. It was operated by the Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company. During its 18 months of...
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    State Route 207 (SR 207) is an 11.082-mile (17.835 km) state highway in western Douglas County, Nevada, United States. Commonly known as the Kingsbury...
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    Oregon Trail (category U.S. Route 30)
    surveyed the Central Overland Route from Camp Floyd to Genoa, Nevada. This route went through central Nevada (roughly where U.S. Route 50 goes today) and...
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    through central Overland Park. Interstate 35 runs northeast–southwest through the city's northwestern and northern fringe. U.S. Route 56 and U.S. Route 169...
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    The Overland is an interstate passenger train service in Australia, travelling between the state capitals of Melbourne and Adelaide, a distance of 828 km...
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    Airport. Turing east along the Davis County border, I-84 intersects US Route 89 (US-89) and enters Weber Canyon as well as Morgan County. While in Morgan...
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    Fairfield, later the Pony Express and Butterfield Overland Mail set up stations along the Central Overland Route between Fairfield, Simpson Springs, Fish Springs...
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    The Australian Overland Telegraph Line was an electrical telegraph system for sending messages the 3200 kilometres (2000 miles) between Darwin, in what...
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  • into effect. From the end of Central Overland route in Carson City, Nevada they followed the Placerville Toll road route over Johnson Pass (now U.S. Highway...
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    United States Army fort and a way station on the Pony Express and Central Overland Routes dating back to the 1860s. The site is one end of the historic Fort...
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    Emigration Canyon, Utah (category Central Overland Route)
    early Utah history as the original route used by pioneers entering the area. It was part of the Hastings Cutoff route used by the Donner Party in 1846 (not...
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