Sunset Route
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The Sunset Route is a main line of the Union Pacific Railroad running between Southern California and New Orleans, Louisiana. It is the southernmost railway that connects the central United States to
Union Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 7277 leads between a wind farm and desert land outside the town of Cabazon in Riverside County, California (2013)
Coming into LaCoste, Texas in 1960.
Gadsden Purchase
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The Gadsden Purchase, also known as the Treaty of Mesilla, is a 29,640-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States acquired from Mexico. The f
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…the American Civil War, as businessmen in the Southern United States wanted a direct connection to the Pacific Ocean. This was the rationale for the Gadsden Purchase. The name traces its origins to the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway, a Southern Pacific Railroad subsidiary which was known as the Sunset…
c. 1831 portrait of James Gadsden by Charles Fraser
U.S. Secretary of State James Buchanan (1791–1868), who later became 15th President of the United States (1857–1861)
Isthmus of Tehuantepec in southern Mexico
The Gadsden Purchase historical marker near Interstate 10