George Jay Gould
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George Jay Gould I was a financier and the son of Jay Gould. He was himself a railroad executive, leading the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (DRGW), Western Pacific Railroad (WP), and the Manhattan Railway Company.
"Vigilant" Gould as depicted in Vanity Fair, September 1894. Gould had bought Vigilant, the winner of the previous year's America's Cup, and was racing it in England
Gould and his family at the wedding of his sister, Helen Miller Shepard in 1913
Western Pacific Railroad
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The Western Pacific Railroad was a Class I railroad in the United States. It was formed in 1903 as an attempt to break the near-monopoly the Southern Pacific Railroad had on rail service into northern California. WP's Feather River Route directly competed with SP's portion of the Overland Route for rail traffic between Salt Lake City/Ogden, Utah, and Oakland, California, for nearly 80 years. The Western Pacific was one of the original operators of the California Zephyr passenger line.
An EMD FP7 leads the California Zephyr east through Altamont Pass in 1970
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California Zephyr pulled by Western Pacific locomotives through Feather River Canyon