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Central Pacific Railroad | Founders, History, & Facts | Britannica
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The Central Pacific Railroad, chartered in 1861 by California's "Big Four" merchants (Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker), built the western portion of America's first transcontinental railroad. Construction began in Sacramento on January 8, 1863, and progressed eastward through the formidable Sierra Nevada mountains. The company recruited thousands of Chinese laborers from Canton Province who ultimately comprised 80 percent of the workforce by 1868—approximate
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The Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) first arrived in Huntington in 1868, though the station was located south of the village due to land cost negotiations, leading to the development of Huntington Station as a community itself. In 1890, the horsecar Huntington Railroad was established, connecting the LIRR station to Halesite; it was electrified and extended by the LIRR in 1898, eventually becoming an 18.5-mile cross-island trolley to Amityville in 1909. The trolley line declined after 1919 due to a
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On December 2, 1865, the Southern Pacific Railroad of California was incorporated in San Francisco. The company’s first formal project was the construction of a rail line from San Francisco to San Diego. Timothy Phelps served as the first president of the Southern Pacific until 1868 when the company was purchased the Big Four (Collis Huntington, Charles Crocker, Leland Stanford, and Mark Hopkins) of the Central Pacific. The Central Pacific-Southern Pacific Railroad played a key role in not only
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On June 28, 1861, the Central Pacific Railroad was incorporated by Theodore Judah and four Sacramento businessmen known as “The Associates.” Also known as the “Big Four,” The Associates were Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, Collis P. Huntington, and Charles Crocker. Theodore Judah, who previously worked for the Sacramento Valley Railroad and publisher of "A Practical Plan for Building the Pacific Railroad," was the Chief Engineer of the company. Judah was sent to Washington DC to lobby for a trans
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