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California High-Speed Rail California High-Speed Rail (abbreviated CAHSR) is a high-speed rail system under construction in the U.S. state of California. It will connect the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center in Anaheim and Union Station in Downtown Los Angeles with the Transbay Transit Center in San Francisco via the Central Valley, providing a one-seat ride for the trip in 2 hours and 40 minutes. Future plans seek to connect to stations to San Diego via the Inland Empire, and to Sacramento. CAHSR will operate on completely grade separated tracks for the entirety of its route with speeds of up to 220 miles per hour (350Â km/h), with early ridership projections for the San Francisco to Los Angeles leg at 28.4 million. The project is owned and managed by the state of California through the California High-Speed Rail Authority (CAHSRA) agency. Once completed, the system will be operated by the American subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn.
First Transcontinental Railroad The First Transcontinental Railroad (also called the Great Transcontinental Railroad, known originally as the "Pacific Railroad" and later as the "Overland Route") was a 1,912-mile (3,077 km) continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Omaha, Nebraska/Council Bluffs, Iowa with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay.[1] The rail line was built by three private companies over public lands provided by extensive US land grants.[2] Construction was financed by both state and US government subsidy bonds as well as by company issued mortgage bonds.[3][4][5][N 1] The Western Pacific Railroad Company built 132 mi (212 km) of track from Oakland/Alameda to Sacramento, California. The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California (CPRR) constructed 690 mi (1,110 km) eastward from Sacramento to Promontory Summit, Utah Territory (U.T.). The Union Pacific built 1,085 mi (1,746 km) from the road's eastern terminus at Council Bluffs near Omaha, Nebraska westward to Promontory Summit.[7][8][9]