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Pacific Coast Ranges/Sierras Rockies East of the Rockies
Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway (never completed)
Ferrocarril de Sonora/New Mexico and Arizona RailroadSouthern Pacific Company El Paso Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio RailwaySouthern Pacific Company

Texas and Pacific RailwayMissouri Pacific Railroad


Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad


Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway

San Diego and Arizona Eastern RailwaySouthern Pacific Company

Southern Pacific RailroadSouthern Pacific Company

Yuma Southern Pacific RailroadSouthern Pacific Company
Atlantic and Pacific RailroadSanta Fe Pacific RailroadAtchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Albuquerque Eastern Railway of New MexicoAtchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway

Los Angeles and Salt Lake RailroadUnion Pacific Railroad

Central Pacific RailroadSouthern Pacific Company


Western Pacific Railroad

Salt Lake City/Ogden Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Pueblo Colorado and Southern RailwayChicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway


Missouri Pacific Railroad

Colorado Midland Railway Colorado Springs (connected to Pueblo and Denver by joint D&RGW/AT&SF/C&S trackage) Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (also had trackage rights on UP from Denver)
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Denver Kansas Pacific RailwayUnion Pacific Railroad

Burlington and Colorado RailroadBurlington and Missouri River RailroadChicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad


Colorado Central RailroadUnion Pacific, Denver and Gulf RailwayUnion Pacific Railroad

Union Pacific Railroad Cheyenne (connected to Denver by C&S and UP lines) Cheyenne and Burlington RailroadBurlington and Missouri River RailroadChicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad

Union Pacific Railroad

Oregon Railroad and Navigation CompanyUnion Pacific Railroad Huntington Oregon Short Line Railroad
Spokane Northern Pacific Railroad Billings Burlington and Missouri River RailroadChicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad

Northern Pacific Railroad

Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway

Northern Pacific Railroad


Milwaukee Road

Milwaukee Road
never made it Lander Chicago and North Western Railway
Great Northern Railway
Canadian Pacific Railway
Canadian Northern RailwayCanadian National Railway
Grand Trunk Pacific RailwayCanadian National Railway
Federal charters

Does this map show the original plan that the 1862 law was written for? I think so.

HR 227 appears to be the first version of the bill that resembled the final one; it soon became S 213. However, HR 364 for the People's Pacific Railroad actually became the final law, and by May 5, 1862 it was known as the Union Pacific. There was discussion on June 11, June 12, June 17, June 18, June 19, and June 20. I cannot find any explanation for the name "Union Pacific".

[1] shows that the LP&W would have gone Leavenworth-Lawrence, then along the Kansas River, Smoky Hill River to Salina, then generally west - this is in fact what was eventually built.


What was actually built (and received land grants) of the above is:

http://books.google.com/books?id=Y8AxOL_dz24C&pg=RA1-PA381 http://books.google.com/books?id=2kAtAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA11-PA23-IA1 http://books.google.com/books?id=0f9BAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA164 http://books.google.com/books?id=Str1DuRcnVwC&pg=PA303