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gptkbp:instanceOf
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gptkb:railway_company
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gptkbp:abbreviation
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gptkb:CPRR
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gptkbp:began_construction
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1863
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gptkbp:built
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western portion of the First Transcontinental Railroad
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gptkbp:category
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defunct company
19th-century American railroad
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gptkbp:completed_transcontinental_link
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May 10, 1869
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gptkbp:country
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gptkb:United_States
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gptkbp:formedByMergerOf
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1885
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gptkbp:founded
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1861
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gptkbp:founder
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gptkb:Charles_Crocker
gptkb:Leland_Stanford
gptkb:Mark_Hopkins
gptkb:Collis_P._Huntington
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gptkbp:gauge
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standard gauge
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gptkbp:headquarters_location
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gptkb:Sacramento,_California
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gptkbp:historicalSignificance
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part of the first rail link between the eastern and western United States
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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Central Pacific Railroad
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gptkbp:mergedInto
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gptkb:Southern_Pacific_Railroad
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gptkbp:notable_rolling_stock
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gptkb:locomotive_Jupiter
gptkb:locomotive_No._60
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gptkbp:notableBuilding
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gptkb:Summit_Tunnel
gptkb:Sierra_Nevada_tunnels
gptkb:Donner_Pass
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gptkbp:notableEvent
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gptkb:Chinese_labor_strike_1867
gptkb:Golden_Spike_ceremony
completion of the transcontinental railroad
completion of Summit Tunnel 1867
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gptkbp:notableModel
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gptkb:Theodore_Judah
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gptkbp:notablePerson
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gptkb:E._B._Crocker
gptkb:Edwin_B._Crocker
gptkb:George_E._Gray
gptkb:James_Harvey_Strobridge
gptkb:John_Corning
gptkb:John_R._Gilliss
gptkb:Lewis_M._Clement
gptkb:Arthur_Brown
gptkb:James_Bailey
gptkb:Samuel_S._Montague
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gptkbp:notablePlace
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gptkb:Promontory_Summit,_Utah
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gptkbp:notableProject
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construction through Sierra Nevada mountains
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gptkbp:operates
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gptkb:California
gptkb:Nevada
gptkb:Utah
gptkb:Omaha,_Nebraska
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gptkbp:parent_company_after_merger
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gptkb:Southern_Pacific_Company
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gptkbp:successor
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gptkb:Southern_Pacific_Railroad
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gptkbp:used_labor
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gptkb:Chinese_immigrants
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:Lehman_Brothers
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gptkbp:bfsLayer
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4
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