Central Pacific Railroad
type: Agent
type: SocialPerson
type: Thing
type: Q24229398
type: Q4830453
type: Q43229
type: Organisation
type: Company
type: Organization
label: セントラル・パシフィック鉄道 @ja
label: Central Pacific @fr
label: سكك حديد وسط المحيط الهادئ @ar
subject: Category:History of California
subject: Category:History of the Sierra Nevada (United States)
subject: Category:History of rail transportation in the United States
subject: Category:American companies established in 1899
subject: Category:Historic American Engineering Record in California
subject: Category:First transcontinental railroad
subject: Category:1861 establishments in the United States
subject: Category:Railway companies established in 1861
subject: Category:1860s in California
subject: Category:Railway companies disestablished in 1899
subject: Category:Defunct Utah railroads
subject: Category:Union Pacific Railroad
subject: Category:Railway lines in the United States
subject: Category:History of the American West
subject: Category:Defunct California railroads
subject: Category:Rail lines receiving land grants
subject: Category:American frontier
subject: Category:Predecessors of the Southern Pacific Transportation Company
subject: Category:Defunct Nevada railroads
opening date: 1861-06-28
opening year: 1861
footer: : CPRR Original Chief Assistant Engineer L.M. Clement & Chief Engineer T.D. Judah; : 1865 San Francisco Pacific Railroad Bond approved in 1863 but delayed for two years by the opposition of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors
footer: : The Central Pacific built trestles initially in order to expedite construction of the railroad. Later, many of the trestles were filled in with dirt, such as this one near Secret Town, Placer County, California. Photo: Carleton Watkins; : The Last Spike, painting by Thomas Hill . Some of the Central Pacific officials depicted in the painting were not actually at the Gold Spike ceremony in Utah.
end year: --06-30
end year: 1885-04-01
start year: 1861-06-28
locale: Sacramento, California
locale: Ogden, Utah
headquarter: Sacramento, California
image: Trestle CPRR.jpg
image: San Francisco Pacific Railroad Bond WPRR 1865.jpg
image: Lmc_tdj.jpg
image: The Last Spike 1869.jpg
align: right
align: left
d: y
id: ca2394
railroad name: Central Pacific Railroad
successor line: Southern Pacific Transportation Company
direction: horizontal
closing date: 1959-06-30
closing date: 1885-04-01
closing year: 1959
closing year: 1885
hq city: Sacramento, CA; San Francisco, California
location: Sacramento, California
description: חברה אמריקאית שבנתה את החלק המערבי של מסילת הרכבת הטרנס-יבשתית הראשונה @iw
description: Compañia ferroviaria estadounidense. @es
description: U.S. company that built western leg of the first transcontinental railroad
description: американская железнодорожная компания @ru
description: historische Eisenbahngesellschaft @de
description: compagnie de chemin de fer disparue des États-Unis. @fr
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