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Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/December 2
- December 2
Union Pacific Railroad directors at the 100th meridian, west of Omaha in 1866
- 1863 – Union Pacific Railroad holds groundbreaking ceremonies in the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad at Omaha, Nebraska, (pictured) but the first rails aren't laid for another year.
- 1892 – Jay Gould, American financier who, with Jim Fisk, took control of the Erie Railroad, dies (b. 1836).
- 1906 – Construction begins on Santa Fe's Rocky Ford, Colorado, station; the station is completed and occupied by the end of March 1907.
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