The grade of the CPRR met that of the Union Pacific Railroad, which had been built west from its eastern terminus at Council Bluffs, Iowa / Omaha, Nebraska.

The Central Pacific Railroad ( CPRR ) is the former name of the railroad network built between California and Utah, USA that formed part of the " First Transcontinental Railroad " in North America.

Technically the CPRR remained a corporate entity until 1959, when it was formally merged into Southern Pacific.

CPRR logo on a gilded " Staff " uniform button ( 1867 ) Construction of the road was financed primarily by 30-year, 6 % U. S. Government Bonds authorized by Sec.

Critics claimed the CPRR intended to build a railroad only as far as Dutch Flat, to connect to the Dutch Flat Wagon Road which they already controlled.

They managed financing and construction of the CPRR.

* In Memoriam: Theodore D. Judah, CPRR Chief Engineer.

When the eastern end of the CPRR was extended to Ogden, it ended the short period of a boom town for Promontory.

Before the CPRR was completed, developers were building other railroads in Nevada and California to connect to it.

The CPRR Engineering Department was taken over by Samuel S. Montegue as his successor as Chief Engineer, and Chief Assistant Engineer ( later Acting Chief Engineer ) Lewis Metzler Clement who also became Superintendent of Track.

Display ads for the CPRR and UPRR the week the rails were joined on May 19, 1869 UPRR & CPRR " Great American Over-Land Route " Timetable cover 1881When the golden spike was driven, the rail network was not yet connected to the Atlantic or Pacific, but merely connected Omaha and Sacramento.

At the conclusion of the ceremony, the Chinese participating were honored and cheered by the CPRR officials and that road's construction chief, J. H Strobridge, at a dinner in his private car.

Golden Spike Days program, Omaha, 1939An elaborate four day event called the " Golden Spike Days Celebration " was held in Omaha, NE, from April 26 to 29, 1939, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the joining of the UP and CPRR rails and driving of the Last Spike at Promontory Summit, UT, in 1869.

In May, 1969, the " Inyo " participated in the Golden Spike Centennial at Promontory, Utah, and then served as the replica of the Central Pacific's " Jupiter " ( CPRR # 60 ) at the Golden Spike National Historical Site until the current replica was built in 1979.

Watkins purchased the 1860s Central Pacific Railroad construction stereoview negatives from CPRR official photographer Alfred A. Hart and continued their publication through the 1870s.

Hart sold his negatives to Carleton Watkins, who continued to publish the CPRR stereoviews in the 1870s. Alfred Hart's photograph # 336 of Palisades ( Ten Mile ) Canyon and the Humboldt River, during construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad | Transcontinental Railroad.

Billy decided to set an example by arresting one of the ranchers, named Ed Dunn, who lived at Rock Fort.

But because the governor was determined that friendship should not influence him one way or the other, he looked for a printer with a knowledge of the law ( which Woodruff did not have ), and awarded the contract to a lawyer named John Steele who had started a newspaper in Helena the year before.

one of the best dancers, a Turkish girl named Semra, works at a roadhouse outside Bristol, Conn..

It was arranged that he would board in the home of one of the old members of the church, a woman named Catt who, as Wilson afterward found, was briefly referred to as The Cat because of her sharp tongue and fierce initiative.

Her services to the School for many years were of a very high character, and I have often thought that one of the buildings should be named for her ''.

Pennsylvania Avenue, named for one of the original 13 states, perhaps is not the most impressive street in the District of Columbia from a commercial standpoint.

Both church and graveyard were smaller than she remembered them ( how many things had lessened while she was gone away ) but the headstones had grown so thick in thirty years that to find one named `` Dorothy Tredding '' seemed suddenly impossible.

The Oscar statuette is officially named the Academy Award of Merit and is one of nine types of Academy Awards.

It was said to have been named after the Greek town of Aegae, or after Aegea, a queen of the Amazons who died in the sea, or Aigaion, the " sea goat ", another name of Briareus, one of the archaic Hecatonchires, or, especially among the Athenians, Aegeus, the father of Theseus, who drowned himself in the sea when he thought his son had died.

Posthumously, he was named " Asian of the Century " in the " Arts, Literature, and Culture " category by AsianWeek magazine and CNN, cited as " one of the people who contributed most to the betterment of Asia in the past 100 years ".

In 2011, Men's Health named her one of the " 100 Hottest Women of All-Time ", ranking her at No. 29.

Dame Jean was at one time a lady-in-waiting to Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, patron of the Dandie Dinmont Club, a breed of dog named after one of Sir Walter Scott's characters ; and a horse trainer, one of whose horses, Sir Wattie, ridden by Ian Stark, won two silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

In keeping with its many Walter Scott references, Rose Street in Edinburgh has a bar called the " Kenilworth ", along with one named the " Abbotsford ".

The Dodo, who in this adaptation of the book is named Uilleam and is portrayed by Michael Gough, bears a down of brilliant blue and is one of Alice's advisers, who also took first note of her identity as the true Alice.

The sum which he named was a large one, 4, 000 pounds of gold.

Ambrosius Aurelianus is one of the few people that Gildas identifies by name in his sermon De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, and the only one named from the 5th century.

* Titus Andronicus, main character in the play of the same name by William Shakespeare, possibly named after one of the above-listed emperors

In addition, ASU is ranked 78th in the world / 45th in the US by the Academic Ranking of World Universities and was named as one of " America's Best College Buys " by Forbes magazine.

For its efforts to be a national leader in campus sustainability, ASU was named one of the top 20 " cool schools " by the Sierra Club, was named to the " Green Honor Roll " by the Princeton Review, and earned an " A -" grade on the 2010 College Sustainability Report Card.

In 1999, Time magazine named Fleming one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century, stating:

His other alma mater, the Royal Polytechnic Institution ( now the University of Westminster ) has named one of its student halls of residence Alexander Fleming House, which is near to Old Street.

The Deacon Board, headed by a black man named Carlson, had practically taken over as the pastor grew old, and had its way with the support of the Amen corner.

In the 1890's the Palace Hotel began serving an oyster dish named after its manager, John C. Kirkpatrick.

In its ruling, the state Board of Education upheld Dr. Michael F. Walsh, state commissioner of education, who had ruled previously that the Warwick board erred when it named Maurice F. Tougas as coordinator of audio-visual education without first finding that the school superintendent's candidate was not suitable.

This led to americium being located right below its twin lanthanide element europium ; it was thus by analogy named after another continent, America: " The name americium ( after the Americas ) and the symbol Am are suggested for the element on the basis of its position as the sixth member of the actinide rare-earth series, analogous to europium, Eu, of the lanthanide series.

Also known as Lokāyata, it is a system of Hindu philosophy that assumes various forms of philosophical skepticism and religious indifference. It is named after its founder, Cārvāka, author of the Bārhaspatya-sūtras.

It is named after its scholarly journal Annales d ' histoire économique et sociale, which remains the main source of scholarship, along with many books and monographs.

So named due to its resemblance to a traditional agricultural plough ( or more specifically two ploughshares ), many manufacturers produce a plough-style design, all based on or direct copies of the original CQR ( Secure ), a 1933 design patented in the UK ( US patent in 1934 ) by mathematician Geoffrey Ingram Taylor.

It has been mass produced on souvenirs, lent its name to a Superman villain, appeared on The Simpsons to demonstrate the redemption of a murderous character named Sideshow Bob, incorporated into Hare Krishna chants and adapted for Wicca ceremonies.

Paul Kolton was named as president of the exchange in 1971, making him the first person to be selected from within the exchange to serve as its leader, succeeding Ralph S. Saul, who announced his resignation in March 1971.

In November 1972, Kolton was named as the exchange's first chief executive officer and its first salaried top executive.

There is also a synthetic dye that has been named " amaranth " for its similarity in color to the natural amaranth pigments known as betalains.

Walter M. Miller, Jr .' s novel A Canticle for Leibowitz centers on a monastic order called the Albertian Order of Leibowitz, named by its founder after Albertus Magnus and dedicated to preserving scientific knowledge lost after a nuclear war.

Fleming postulated the effect was mediated by an antibacterial compound named penicillin, and that its antibacterial properties could be exploited for chemotherapy.

* The dinosaur Diplodocus carnegiei ( Hatcher ) was named for Carnegie after he sponsored the expedition that discovered its remains in the Morrison Formation ( Jurassic ) of Utah.

The technique is named after actor Frederick Matthias Alexander, who developed its principles in the 1890s as a personal tool to alleviate breathing problems and hoarseness during public speaking.

It was named for its original capital, the ancient city of Assur ( Akkadian: ; Aramaic: ; Hebrew: ; Arabic: ).

The AVL tree is named after its two Soviet inventors, G. M. Adelson-Velskii and E. M. Landis, who published it in their 1962 paper " An algorithm for the organization of information.

Jeff Moorad, a former sports agent, joined the partnership, and was named the team's CEO ; becoming its primary public face.

This replica was discovered in a cave by a Swedish German missionary named Harald von Sicard in the 1940s and eventually found its way to the Museum of Human Science in Harare.

A deep ditch separated the city from its " suburb ;" its location is today marked by a wide street named " Graben " ( meaning Ditch ).