Gould transcontinental system

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The Gould transcontinental system was a system of railroads assembled by George Jay Gould I and the Fuller Syndicate in the early 1900s. This was Gould's attempt to fulfill a goal of his late father, financier Jay Gould.[1][2] Due to financial troubles following the Panic of 1907, the system was never completed as a fully transcontinental line.[1][2]

At its peak the system stretched from San Francisco to Pittsburgh, and comprised the following railroads:

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