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Theodore Dehone Judah (March 4, 1826 – November 2, 1863) was an American civil engineer who was a central figure in the original promotion, establishment, and design of the First transcontinental railroad. He found investors for what became the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR).
Há 1 dia · Theodore Judah. Courtesy: California State Library. Theodore Judah and the American railroad matured together. As a boy Judah studied civil engineering. By 18 he was a railroad surveyor,...
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Theodore Judah and the American railroad matured together. He was born in 1826 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. In 1830, America had just 23 miles of track, but the railroad business was about to ...
Theodore D. Judah was a brilliant civil engineer who dreamed of building a transcontinental railroad. He worked tirelessly surveying a route for a railroad to connect California to the rest of the country. Judah convinced several Sacramento businessmen to invest in the Central Pacific Railroad.
During the first twenty-five years, twenty-five thousand miles of Railroad has been constructed in the United States, and a thousand million of dollars expended thereon. This road is but two thousand miles in length, and its cost not over, say $150,000,000.
While sectional issues and disagreements were debated in the late 1850s, no decision was forthcoming from Congress on the Pacific railroad question. Theodore D. Judah, the engineer of the Sacramento Valley Railroad, became obsessed with the desire to build a transcontinental railroad.
Theodore D. Judah, first chief engineer of the Central Pacific who located the original line over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, but who died on November 2, 1863, before little more than preliminary work had begun on the first transcontinental railroad.
