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The Pacific Railway Act of 1862 gave land grants in the western United States to the Union Pacific Railroad and Central Pacific Railroad (later the Southern Pacific Railroad[?]) to construct a transcontinental railroad.

See First Transcontinental Railroad (North America)



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