Union Pacific

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">The official painting is full of dignity and decorum lamentably absent in the actual photograph.</span> </span></p>

<p>In a classic model of government corruption, the promoters placed shares of the company's stock “where it will do most good"—in the pockets of key Congressmen</p>
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<p><span class="deck">A Pony Express stop for our time</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Where two lines raced to drive the last spike In the transcontinental track</span></p>

<p>They created towns and became the center of Western life, enabling wheat, cattle, and minerals to flow out of the West.</p>