Central Pacific Railroad
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The
Central Pacific Railroad, (later to become the
Southern Pacific Railroad), was planned by
Theodore Judah and financed mostly through the efforts of the '
Big Four', who were
Sacramento, California businessmen
Leland Stanford,
Collis Huntington,
Charles Crocker, and
Mark Hopkins. It was created to build the
First Transcontinental Railroad.