The Central Pacific Railway (CPRR) was a railroad run by the U.S. Congress in 1862 to complete the western part of the “First Transcontinental Railway” in North America. In Sacramento, California, the organization was able to keep track of just 20 miles before running out of money. And, for the next three years, during the Civil War, there will be a lack of funding. They competed for the longest track in the history of national railways, and there was a competition between the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroad companies. Their systems will connect Missouri’s population and products with Sacramento, California. Each company was provided with financial support from government bonds and large parcels were given along the entire length of their route as an additional incentive.
Following the completion of the Pacific Railroad Survey in 1855, several national proposals for the construction of the Transcontinental Railway failed due to the use of force in political disputes over slavery. The conflict between the Central Pacific Union and the Union Pacific entities did not simply surround the beginning of the Transcontinental Railway. Before the American Civil War (1861–1656), members of the U.S. Congress fought over whether to lay tracks on northern or southern soils. Stanford, who was governor of California in 1862–63, saw the company with financial and political interests in the West. The partners initially subscribe to some of their own funds but most of the capital for the actual construction comes from public funds and grants. On May 10, 1869, 1,800 miles (2900 km) of new tracks were laid and the railroad met at Utah’s Promontory Summit. A luxurious celebration was planned, during which two locomotives from both ends of the railway would touch their noses and the rich friends of the railway founder would be the first passengers. The Central Pacific Railway was leased by the South Pacific Railway in 1885, although it remained a corporate entity until 1959 when it was formally integrated into the South Pacific. Over the years, the line has stretched up to 13,000 miles across most parts of the southwestern United States. Later, the railroad acquired existing routes in Texas and New Orleans on southern routes. The Central Pacific Railway Company was a new holding company, leased to the South Pacific Ocean (merged in 1884) The two companies merged in 1959.
In later years Central Pacific feeder lines were established across California (some of them were under the umbrella of a company called the Southern Pacific Company of California) and had already taken trekking along the southern route to Texas and New Orleans, Louisiana. The government’s and employer’s policy towards migrant workers has cost many lives since the railway was built. Land grabbing by violating U.S. government agreements with Native Americans and killing buffalo animals to open up land and expand industry further indulged American existence and tarnished the permanent relationship between Native Americans living under U.S. government authority.
