Northern Railway (California)
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The Northern Railway was a non-operating subsidiary of the Southern Pacific Railroad
Southern Pacific Railroad
The Southern Pacific Transportation Company , earlier Southern Pacific Railroad and Southern Pacific Company, and usually simply called the Southern Pacific or Espee, was an American railroad....

during the 19th century, created primarily as a device to consolidate the management of a number of smaller subsidiary railroads.
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