Diplomacy in Action. Sanctioned Entities List. The Department of State has sanctioned the following entity for its commercial activities in Iran, pursuant to its authorities under the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996, as amended.
The two railroad companies involved in the transcontinental  railroad were the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific. They  completed the track on May 10, 1869 at Promontoryâ¦ Summit, Utah.
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. Many 19th century national proposals to build a transcontinental railroad failed because of the energy consumed by political disputes over slavery. With the secession of the South, the modernizers in the Republican Party controlled the US Congress.