USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) was a rail company chartered by U.S. Congress in 1862 to build a railroad eastwards from Sacramento, California, to complete the western part of the “First transcontinental railroad” in North America.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Central Pacific Railroad was an American railroad company founded in 1861 by a group of California merchants known later as the “Big Four” (Collis P. Huntington, Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker). They are best remembered for having built part of the first American transcontinental rail line.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California (CPRR) constructed 690 miles (1, 110 km) east from Sacramento to Promontory Summit, Utah Territory.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Central Pacific began laying track eastward from Sacramento, California, in 1863, and the Union Pacific started westward from Omaha, Nebraska, two years later. To meet its manpower needs, the Central Pacific hired thousands of Chinese labourers, including many recruited from farms in Canton.