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Gould transcontinental system

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The Gould transcontinental system was a system of railroads assembled by George Jay Gould I and the Fuller Syndicate in the early 1900s. This was Gould's attempt to fulfill a goal of his late father, financier Jay Gould. Due to financial troubles following the Panic of 1907, the system was never completed as a fully transcontinental line.

At its peak the system stretched from San Francisco to Pittsburgh, and comprised the following railroads:

  • Western Pacific Railway
  • Rio Grande Western Railway
  • Denver and Rio Grande Railroad
  • Missouri Pacific Railway
  • Wabash Railroad
  • Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad
  • Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Railway
  • (Gap between Pittsburgh and Connellsville, PA)
  • Western Maryland Railroad
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