page_title: Leonard H. Eicholtz
section_title: Kansas Pacific Railway
hierarchical_section_title: Leonard H. Eicholtz / Early life and career / Kansas Pacific Railway
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph. Title: 224 Engineers of U.P.R.R. at the laying Of the Last Rail Promontory (Scratched on negative) Image Description: See title. Number 151 is also scratched on negative. Physical Description: "Imperial Plate" collodion glass negative, 10"X13 ". Sub. Cat.: Transportation -- Railroads
context_page_description: Leonard Henry Eicholtz was a leading nineteenth-century American railroad engineer and civil engineer. He was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Eicholtz married Ellen Inslee Smith in 1871 and they had five children: four daughters and one son, Leonard H. Eicholtz, Jr.
context_section_description: In 1866, Eicholtz left the military railroads and was a resident engineer of the Kansas Pacific Railway Company, with headquarters at Wyandotte, Kansas part of present-day Kansas City, Kansas. The US Congress had approved and Act on July 3, 1866, authorizing the railway to extend the railroad westward along the Smoky Hill River to Denver, Colorado. The Act also required the railroad to join the Union Pacific railroad no more than fifty miles west of Denver, a distance of 394 miles. The railroad was completed by the end of 1867.
caption: Andrew J. Russell photograph of some of the civil engineers who worked on the Union Pacific (1863-1869)
   Sixteen men are standing in the photograph. The fourth man from the right was Eicholtz.
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