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Many railroads were named more out of ambition than to where they actually ran. For example: The Chicago Rock Island & Pacific - As close to the Pacific it got was Denver A Southern Railway predecessor, The Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific - It never got to NO much less Texas or the Pacific The St. Louis-San Francisco - It stopped about 1200 miles short of SF The Texas & Pacific - It got as close to the Pacific as El Paso On the other hand some roads were overly descriptive such as the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis which in short order was called the Big Four. The New York (Buffalo) , Chicago & St. Louis which (because of NYCL) was better known as the Nickle Plate,
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