What happened to the Central Pacific Railroad after the track was joined to the Union Pacific? What is the current status of the Central Pacific Railroad?
The Central Pacific Railroad later became a part of the Southern Pacific System in 1885 under a lease to the Southern Pacific Company, and in 1959 merged with the Southern Pacific Railroad (which was controlled by the UPRR from 1901 until the court ordered 1912 “unmerger”), but the SPRR was eventually purchased by the Union Pacific in 1996 for $5.4 billion forming the largest railroad in the U.S. (See the Corporate Family Tree for the Union Pacific Railroad, including the Southern Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads.) “Union Pacific now [2002] has annual revenue of $12 billion and owns 33,586 miles of track, 153,272 freight cars and 6,921 locomotives. U.P. employs 48,000 with an average yearly payroll of $2.7 billion. It moves 8.92 million carloads of materials each year.” As a leased line of the Southern Pacific (see reasons for the Central Pacific leasing its lines to the Southern Pacific), the CPRR ceased operating under the CPRR name by 1887, but it had a continued corporate exis
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