The Pacific Railroad is a defunct U.S. railroad. It was a predecessor of both the Missouri Pacific Railroad and St. Louis-San Francisco Railway. . ... Missouri Pacific (MoPac; AAR reporting mark MP) was one of the first railroads in the United States west of the Mississippi River. ... The St. ...
The Pacific was chartered by the U.S. state of Missouri on March 3, 1849. In 1856, the building of a line from Pacific to Rolla began. A state of the United States (a U.S. state) is any one of the fifty states (four of which officially favor the term commonwealth) which, along with the District of Columbia, form the United States of America. ... Official language(s) none, English most common Capital Jefferson City Largest city Kansas City Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 21st 69,709 mi²; 180,693 km² 240 mi; 385 km 300 mi; 480 km 1. ... March 3 is the 62nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (63rd in leap years). ... 1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Pacific is a city located in Franklin County and St. ... Rolla is a city located in Phelps County, Missouri. ...
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(1960). 100 Years of Service. URL accessed on 2006-04-20.
It was reincorporated (1897) as the Union PacificRailroad Company in Utah, and under the management of Edward H. Harriman the railroad was expanded, vastly improved, and stabilized.
The Union Pacific acquired the MissouriPacific and Western Pacific RRs in 1982 and M-K-T RR in 1988.
Today the railroad, with around 33,000 mi (53,000 km) of track in the West, Midwest, and Gulf Coast regions, is a subsidiary of the highly diversified Union Pacific Corporation; in 1999 the corporation split the railroad operation into three semiautonomous units (for the northern, southern, and western sections of the system).
The winter of 1866-67 was one of the harshest on record, and caught the crews of the railroad in the midst of drilling eleven tunnels at the highest elevations.
The Union Pacific, chartered by the PacificRailroad Act of 1862, was formally organized in October 1863 to construct west from the Missouri River and across the Great Plains and Rockies until it met the Central Pacific coming the other way.
Completing the Pacificrailroad (it wouldn't be commonly called the "transcontinental railroad" for another year or two) had the same effect on the popular imagination as would man's walking on the moon one hundred years and a couple of months later.
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