The Central Pacific Railroad and the Pacific Quartet

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The Central Pacific Railroad and the Pacific Quartet

… The men who became known as the Pacific Quartet were all prosperous but just moderately wealthy merchants of Sacramento. There were actually five partners or associates : Mark Hopkins, Collis Potter Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and his brother Edwin Bryant Crocker. They were a close knit group of capitalists who acted as associates for the best part of their lives and thereby built not one but two transcontinental railroads. It was often wondered how a group of just modestly wealthy merchants with close to no experience in railroad building could launch a project as big as the Central Pacific …

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