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Re: First Trancontinential Railroad
Author: Craig Tambo
Date: 08-14-2008 - 22:50

According to the book "Portrait of a Silver Lady" (page 7), Judah and Huntington checked out the Feather River and decided a railroad could not be built there, although I haven't seen that anectdote mentioned elsewhere. I beleive that eventually the Spring Garden tunnel routing allowed the WP to avoid the problematic portion of the canyon, probably not feasible to construct in the 1860s.

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