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Wikipedia: The Southern Pacific Transportation Company, earlier Southern Pacific Railroad (1865-1885) and Southern Pacific Company (1885-1969), and usually simply called the Southern Pacific, was an American railroad. The railroad was founded as a land holding company in 1865, later acquiring the Central Pacific Railroad by lease. By 1900, the Southern Pacific Company had grown into a major railroad system which incorporated many smaller companies, such as the Texas and New Orleans Railroad and Morgan's Louisiana and Texas Railroad, and which extended from New Orleans through Texas to El Paso, across New Mexico and through Tucson, to Los Angeles, throughout most of California including San Francisco and Sacramento; it also included the Central Pacific Railroad extending eastward across Nevada to Ogden, Utah and had lines reaching north throughout and across Oregon to Portland.
![[The Southern Pacific Company's Bay City ferry plies the waters of San Francisco Bay in the late 19th century]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/CHS_J1211_s.jpg "The Southern Pacific Company's Bay City ferry plies the waters of San Francisco Bay in the late 19th century")
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![[A Southern Pacific Railroad freight train west of Chicago in 1992.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/SP_8033_19921006_IL_Eola_s.jpg "A Southern Pacific Railroad freight train west of Chicago in 1992.")
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![[The Southern Pacific depot located in Burlingame, California circa 1900]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Burlingame_Train_Station_circa_1900_s.jpg "The Southern Pacific depot located in Burlingame, California circa 1900")
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