Rail Lines Receiving Land Grants - First Transcontinental Railroad, Canadian Pacific Railway, Central Pacific Railroad, Union Pacific Railroad (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 82. Chapters: First Transcontinental Railroad, Canadian Pacific Railway, Central Pacific Railroad, Union Pacific Railroad, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, Northern Pacific Railway, Southern Pacific Transportation Company, Illinois Central Railroad, Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad, Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, Central Branch Union Pacific Railroad, Alabama Great Southern Railroad, Kansas Pacific Railway, Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad, Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad, Oregon and California Railroad, Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company, Florida Railroad, Mobile and Ohio Railroad, Sioux City and Pacific Railroad, Mississippi and Missouri Railroad, Amboy, Lansing and Traverse Bay Railroad, Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Railroad, New Orleans, Opelousas and Great Western Railroad, Burlington and Missouri River Railroad. Excerpt: The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), formerly also known as CP Rail (reporting mark CP) between 1968 and 1996, is a historic Canadian Class I railway founded in 1881 and now operated by Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, which began operations as legal owner in a corporate restructuring in 2001. Its rail network serves major cities in the United States, such as Minneapolis, Chicago, and New York City. Its headquarters is in Calgary, Alberta. It owns approximately 14,000 miles (22,500 km) route miles of track all across Canada and into the United States, stretching from Montreal to Vancouver, as far north as Edmonton. The company acquired two American lines in 2009: the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad and the Iowa, Chicago and Eastern Railroad. The trackage of the ICE was at one time part of CP subsidiary Soo Line and predecessor line The Milwaukee Road. The combined DME/ICE system spanned North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Wisconsin and Iowa, as ...