Editing Transcontinental railroad (section)

====The Gould System====
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[[George J. Gould]] attempted to assemble a truly transcontinental system in the 1900s. The line from [[San Francisco, California]], to [[Toledo, Ohio]], was completed in 1909, consisting of the [[Western Pacific Railway]], [[Denver and Rio Grande Railroad]], [[Missouri Pacific Railroad]], and [[Wabash Railroad]]. Beyond Toledo, the planned route would have used the [[Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad (1899-1916)|Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad (1900)]], [[Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Railway]], [[Little Kanawha Railroad]], [[West Virginia Central and Pittsburgh Railway]], [[Western Maryland Railroad]], and [[Philadelphia and Western Railway]],{{Citation needed|date=July 2008}} but the [[Panic of 1907]] strangled the plans before the Little Kanawha section in [[West Virginia]] could be finished. The [[Alphabet Route]] was completed in 1931, providing the portion of this line east of the [[Mississippi River]]. With the merging of the railroads, only the Union Pacific Railroad and the [[BNSF Railway]] remain to carry the entire route.