During this era known as “Harriman Control,” Southern Pacific and Union Pacific standardized operations and equipment purchases. In 1901, the Union Pacific Railroad gained control of the Southern Pacific following the death of Collis Huntington, the last surviving “Associate” who founded and managed the Central Pacific and Southern Pacific, respectively. By 1877, Southern Pacific had constructed to trackage to Yuma, Arizona and 1881, it would arrive in El Paso, Texas. By this time, the company had already completed its first home-built steam locomotive in 1873, putting Southern Pacific on the map as the only major builder of locomotives in the west. Southern Pacific quickly built further south under its own name, reaching Bakersfield, California by 1874. The driving of the Golden Spike at Promontory linked east and west, signaling the beginning of the end to America’s quest for Manifest Destiny. The Central Pacific built eastward over rugged mountains of the Sierra range in Eastern California for five years before racing across the deserts of Nevada and Utah to meet the Union Pacific Railroad (Union Pacific) on May 10, 1869. Central Pacific began construction of America’s First Transcontinental Railroad in Sacramento, California in 1863. What quickly became America’s first land holding company, the Southern Pacific Railroad (Southern Pacific) was incorporated in 1865 and would later lease the Central Pacific Railroad (Central Pacific).
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