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First Transcontinental Railroad
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First Transcontinental Railroad
The
First Transcontinental Railroad
(known originally as the "
Pacific Railroad
" and later as the "
Overland Route
") was a contiguous railroad line constructed in the
United States
between 1863 and 1869 west of the
Mississippi
and
Missouri Rivers
to connect the Pacific coast at
San Francisco Bay
with the existing eastern U.S. rail network at
Council Bluffs, Iowa
. The rail line was built by three private companies: the original
Western Pacific Railroad Company
between
Oakland
and
Sacramento, California
, the
Central Pacific Railroad Company of California
eastward from Sacramento to
Promontory Summit, Utah Territory (U.T.)
, and the
Union Pacific
westward to Promontory Summit from the road's statutory Eastern terminus at Council Bluffs on the eastern shore of the Missouri River opposite
Omaha, Nebraska
.
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