Maps showing the Southern Pacific Railroad and its connections.

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Maps showing the Southern Pacific Railroad and its connections.

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Main map shows western states and includes relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, township and ranges, counties, railroads, and proposed railroads. General map, at top of sheet, covers the United States and shows the railroad network. First section, the Central Pacific linked California with Ogden, Utah, in 1869. The merging of the Central with the Southern Pacific was the inspiration of Leland Stanford, Collis P. Huntington, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker.
Scale 1:2,090,880 and ca. 1:8,000,000.
LC Railroad maps, 567
Description derived from published bibliography.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
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01/01/1875
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G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co.
Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
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Library of Congress
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