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Central Pacific Railroad

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.

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