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Competing for fame and money, the Central Pacific and Union Pacific constructed over 250 miles of parallel grade. Here the Central Pacific built the Big Fill before Congress gave final construction rights to the Union Pacific. Afterward, the U.P. sold the tracks through here to the C.P., which moved the road from the trestle to the fill. Two hundred fifty teams of horses and five hundred men worked nearly two months to complete the Big Fill. Five hundred feet long and one hundred seventy feet deep, it required almost ten thousand yards of material.
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