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Maps showing the Southern Pacific Railroad and its connections.

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.

Date
1875
Mapmaker / publisher
G.W. & C. Colton & Co.; Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Place
the United States
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
map
Original size
7,322 × 9,124 pixels

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Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

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"Maps showing the Southern Pacific Railroad and its connections." (1875). G.W. & C. Colton & Co.; Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maps_showing_the_Southern_Pacific_Railroad_and_its_connections._LOC_98688810.jpg

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