The Historical Evolution of Union Pacific Railroad Company in the United States

65438+In the 1960s, before the completion of the Pacific Railway in the United States, the eastern and western parts of the United States were blocked by mountains and vast deserts, and there were no convenient transportation routes. From new york to San Francisco, you need to bypass Cape Horn in South America by boat, and it takes at least six months. Because of geography and transportation, the west has become a relatively independent region of the United States, which not only affects economic development, but also becomes a hidden danger of national stability and unity.

1862, American President Lincoln approved the first bill to build the Pacific Railway, which stipulated that the United Pacific Railway Company and the Central Pacific Railway Company should jointly build the transcontinental Pacific Railway. The starting point of the Union Pacific Railway is Omaha, Nebraska, and the starting point of the Central Pacific Railway is Sacramento, California. The two companies laid the east-west railway. The western section of the Pacific Railway will cross the entire Sierra Nevada, and the project is extremely arduous. At that time, the American civil war had already ignited the war, and this railway was also of great strategic significance to the northern United States. In order to open the railway as soon as possible, the American government promulgated the cash subsidy law in the bill, and also stipulated that no matter which company,

Where the land on both sides of the track is laid, it will be developed and utilized. 1869, the Pacific Railway was finally completed, which announced that the continental United States began to integrate into economic operation and promoted the United States to become an economic power connecting the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. The United States has changed from a country in name only to a truly complete country. Jules verne, a famous French science fiction writer, also mentioned the significance of this railway construction in his "Around the World in Eighty Days": Without it, the dream of traveling around the world in 80 days will always be just a dream. In the past, it took six months to get from new york to San Francisco, but it only took seven days after the railway was completed. In fact, without the labor and wisdom of China workers, it would take far more than four years to build this railway.