Central Pacific Railroad
![Route of the first American transcontinental: The Central Pacific (red) in the west and the Union Pacific (blue) met in Utah in 1869.](/Images/godic/202501/03/Transcontinental_railroad_route4015.png")
![The Gov. Stanford locomotive](/Images/godic/202501/03/Uploco4015.jpg")
![The Truckee River at Verdi, Nevada. When the Central Pacific Railroad reached its site in 1868, Charles Crocker pulled a slip of paper from a hat and read the name of Giuseppe Verdi ; so, the town was named after the Italian opera composer.[1]](/Images/godic/202501/03/Truckee_River_at_Verdi,_east_of_the_Sierra_Nevada_mountains,_Nevada,_Central_Pacific_R.R,_by_Thomas_Houseworth_&_Co.4015.jpg")
![Trestle, Central Pacific Railroad, c.1869. Photo: Carleton Watkins](/Images/godic/202501/03/Trestle_CPRR4015.jpg")
The Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) is the former name of the railroad network built between California and Utah, US, that built eastwards from the West Coast in the 1860s, to complete the western part of the "First Transcontinental Railroad" in North America. It is now part of the Union Pacific Railroad.