The Gould transcontinental system was a system of railroads assembled by George Jay Gould I in the early 1900s. This was Gould's attempt to fulfill a goal of his late father, financier Jay Gould.[1][2] Due to financial troubles following the Panic of 1907, it was never completed as a fully transcontinental line.[1][2]
At its peak the system stretched from San Francisco to Pittsburgh, and was composed of the following railroads: