The Contract and Finance Company and the Central Pacific Railroad

1927 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 326
Author(s):  
Harry J. Carman ◽  
Charles H. Mueller
Keyword(s):  
Central Pacific ◽  
Finance Company ◽  
Pacific Railroad

The Central Pacific Railroad and the Railroad Land Grant Controversy

1975 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 552-566 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heywood Fleisig
Keyword(s):  
Land Grant ◽  
Land Grants ◽  
Central Pacific ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Government Aid ◽  
Pacific Railroad ◽  
Federal Loans

To the public of the 1860's, federal loans and land grants to the pioneer Pacific railroads represented aid necessary to secure an economically and politically desirable technological feat; to the public of the 1870's they represented plunder. Scandal, hinted before the driving of the legendary Golden Spike in 1869, sporadically dominated the national political debates of the 1870's and the 1880's. The issue subsided by the 1900's, leaving only a residual popular impression of ample government aid to railroads. Among professional historians, the debate was revived in the mid-1940's by Robert S. Henry's revisionist article justifying the land grants. The ensuing discussion largely restored the original consensus that the land grants represented excessive subsidization.

26. In Which We Catch a Pacific Railroad Express

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jules Verne
Keyword(s):  
Central Pacific ◽  
Trunk Line ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Pacific Railroad

‘Ocean to ocean,’ say the Americans—and this should logically be the name of the grand trunk line that crosses America at its widest point. But in reality, the Pacific Railroad is divided into two distinct parts: the Central Pacific from San...

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