Pacific Railway Acts

The Pacific Railway Acts were passed in 1862 and 1864, by the United States Congress in 1862 and 1864.

The Pacific Railway Act of 1862 gave land grants in the western United States to the Union Pacific Railroad and Central Pacific Railroad (later the Southern Pacific Railroad) to construct a transcontinental railroad. The act granted ten square miles of public land on each side of the track for every mile laid. The

See also, First Transcontinental Railroad (North America)