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Article: Central Pacific Railroad
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- Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
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CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD
The Central Pacific Railroad was conceived by engineer Theodore Dehone Judah, whose idea won the financial backing of four California merchants: Collis P. Huntington, Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker. These men envisioned an immensely profitable railway that would connect the western frontier to eastern trade; they founded the Central Pacific Railroad Company in 1861. They were engaged in a contest to lay the most track in national railway history, and a rivalry arose between Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroad Company. Their systems would link populations and commodities of Missouri with those of Sacramento, California.
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