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Southern Pacific Railroad advertisement from 1885. The company was founded in 1865 as a land holding company and… | Train posters, Central pacific railroad, Pacific
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Historical Railroad Imagery
Southern Pacific Railroad advertisement from 1885. The company was founded in 1865 as a land holding company and became a railroad when it acquired the Central Pacific in 1885. The Central Pacific had employed as many as 12,000 emigrant Chinese laborers to build the railroad line from California to Utah where the "golden spike" was laid in 1869 to form the first transcontinental railroad. Utah was the connecting place with the Union Pacific railroad which had been built west from Council…