The Western Pacific was originally chartered to go to San Jose , but the Central Pacific decided to build along the East Bay instead, as going from San Jose up the Peninsula to San Francisco itself would have brought it into conflict with competing interests.
Very early on, the Central Pacific learned that it would have trouble maintaining an open track in winter across the Sierras. At first they tried plowing the road with special snowplows mounted on their steam engines. When this was only partially successful, an extensive process of building snow sheds over some of the track was instituted to protect it from deep snows and avalanches.
These eventually succeeded at keeping the tracks clear for all but a few days of the year.
The original track had often been laid as fast as possible with only secondary attention to maintenance and durability. The primary incentive had been getting the subsidies, which meant that upgrades of all kinds were routinely required in the following years. In July , the Hannibal and St. Kansas City s head start in connecting to a true transcontinental railroad contributed to it rather than Omaha becoming the dominant rail center west of Chicago.
Only ten years before, the same journey would have taken months over land or weeks on ship, possibly all the way around South America. Supreme Court to divest it because of monopoly concerns. Having been bypassed with the completion of the Lucin Cutoff in , the Promontory Summit rails were pulled up in to be recycled for the World War II effort. This process began with a ceremonial "undriving" at the Last Spike location. The scandal hit epic proportions in the United States presidential election , which saw the re-election of Ulysses Grant and became the biggest scandal of the Gilded Age.
It would not be resolved until the death of the congressman who was supposed to have reined in its excesses but instead wound up profiting from it.
The process mired down Union Pacific work. Lincoln asked Massachusetts Congressman Oakes Ames , who was on the railroad committee, to clean things up and get the railroad moving. Ames got his brother Oliver Ames Jr. Ames then in turn gave stock options to other politicians while at the same time continuing the lucrative overcharges.
The scandal broke in when the New York Sun published correspondence detailing the scheme between Henry McComb and Ames. In the ensuing Congressional investigation, it was recommended that Ames be expelled from Congress, but this was reduced to a censure and Ames died within three months. Durant later left the Union Pacific and a new rail baron, Jay Gould , became the dominant stockholder. As a result of the Panic of , Gould was able to pick up bargains, among them the control of the Union Pacific Railroad and Western Union.
Visible remains of the historic line are still easily located—hundreds of miles are still in service today, especially through the Sierra Nevada Mountains and canyons in Utah and Wyoming. While the original rail has long since been replaced because of age and wear, and the roadbed upgraded and repaired, the lines generally run on top of the original, handmade grade.
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In areas where the original line has been bypassed and abandoned, primarily due to the Lucin Cutoff re-route in Utah, the original road grade is still obvious, as are numerous cuts and fills, especially the Big Fill a few miles east of Promontory. The sweeping curve which connected to the east end of the Big Fill now passes a Thiokol rocket research and development facility. Today the site feature replica engines of Union Pacific No.
The engines are fired up periodically by the National Park Service for the public. Because this rail line currently operates in a directional running setup across most of Nevada, the California Zephyr will switch to the Central Corridor at either Winnemucca or Wells. While not exactly accurate, John Ford s silent movie The Iron Horse captures the fervent nationalism that drove public support for the project.
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