Central Pacific Railroad

The Central Pacific Railway Company, the American Railway Company, was founded in 1861 by a group of Californian businessmen, later known as "Big Hunt" (Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker). The mainland railway is attracting attention. This route was originally conceived by the federal government-supported engineer Theodore De Horn Judah in the form of the Pacific Railroad Act (1862) which receives financial support from the California group and provides land to the Central Pacific Region It was investigated. Grants and Union Pacific. Every company receives financial support from government bonds, and as an additional incentive we have acquired considerable land throughout the process.

Huntington is a representative of the East in handling fundraising and purchasing, acting as a political lobbyist. Crocker is in charge of construction. From 1862 to 1963, Stanford University California Governor learned about the company's financial and political interests in the West. Associate initially applied for some of his own funds, but most of the actual construction came from public funds and subsidies. These four people became very rich. (Stanford University continues to build Stanford University.)

In 1863, the Central Pacific started orbiting east from Sacramento, California, two years later, the North Pacific began in the west in Omaha, Nebraska. In order to fulfill the needs of human resources, the Central Pacific employs thousands of Chinese workers, including many workers collected from the farms in Guangzhou. The crew laid tracks on the steep Sierra Nevada Mountains and blew up nine tunnels to accomplish this goal and completed a difficult task. The Pacific Alliance staff consisted mainly of Irish immigrants and civil war veterans and had to deal with Indian attacks and the Rocky Mountains. On May 10, 1869, after a new track of 1,800 miles (2,900 kilometers) was completed, two tracks met at the cape of Utah. (See Golden Spike National Historic Site)

Central Pacific railroad company eventually hired more than 11,000 Chinese immigrants, accounting for 90% of their labor force. In a letter to President Andrew Jackson, President Lilan Stanford of China Pacific Railways wrote as follows. "Without Chinese, it is impossible to complete the western side of this national highway." The last railroad of the transcontinental railroad was 1869. May 10 at the Golden Spike Ceremony. At the Cape Summit, four special studs will be displayed at the beginning of the ceremony: Nevada silver nails, Arizona gold and silver nails, and the last nail. Or Golden spike. Stanford Governor of Central Pacific Railroad and Thomas Durant of Union Pacific Railroad accepted the peaks of these ceremonies. At the end of the ceremony, Stanford University, Durant, and ordinary railway staff brought the last surge.

On 1869 the President of the Union Pacific Railway and the Central Pacific Railway held a meeting at the cape of Utah State and carried the last peak of the ceremony to the railroad line connecting the railroads. As a result, transcontinental rail travel will be the first in the history of the United States. Western tourists no longer have to travel long and dangerous journeys on the train of the trip and the West will surely lose some of the wild charm of the new connection with the eastern civilization. Since at least 1832, eastern and forefront politicians have recognized the need to connect two coasts. However, it was not until 1853 that Congress allocated funds to investigate several routes across the continental railroad. Actual construction of the railway will have to wait longer because the tension between the north and the south prevents Congress from reaching an agreement where the route starts.

Union Pacific Railway is the eastern half of Transcontinental Railway. It is connected to the existing central railway from the east and the new Central Pacific railway line from California. The number of workers built in Omaha, Nebraska in 1864 is small, many people are still fighting in the civil war. By the end of 1865, Union Pacific had only 40 miles of tracks, but after the war the building took off. The workers laid a 1,087 mile railroad between Nebraska and Utah, where they met the Central Pacific. Although this is largely linear, workers need to fight between stormy weather and Sioux, Arapaho, Cheyenne and Indian tribes.