In addition, just before the war broke out, Abraham Lincoln became the country's 16th President. With the routing chosen Congress passed the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862, signed into law by President Lincoln on July 1, 1862. Union Pacific DDA40X "Centennial" #6913 and an SD40-2 lead tra...
The bulk of these funds were eventually provided by the U.S. government, which under the terms of the railroad acts of 1862 and 1864 agreed to loan to Central Pacific a varying amount of government bonds for every mile of road built, depending on the difficulty of terrain traversed, and t...