Compared to the likes of the Southern Pacific and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, the Western Pacific Railroad can be considered the "runt of the litter" for Class I U.S. railroading in the Far West.

of "The Union Pacific Railroad Company ... That the Leavenworth, Pawnee and Western Railroad Company of Kansas are hereby authorized to construct a railroad and telegraph line ...

Similarly, he disapproved of E. B. Crocker's scheme to buy the Western Pacific Line linking Sacramento and San Francisco. Crocker hoped to initiate a railroad empire throughout California ...

Sir Daniel was a key figure in the development of the Great Western Railway, who, at the age of 24, recommended to build the line in Swindon in a letter to Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Graham Derham ...