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Re: Reno Fun Train at Yuba Gap March 1979
Author: Drew Jacksich
Date: 04-02-2009 - 22:32
Regardless of what the Central Pacific, SP superintendants, or the Ewe Pee call it, the names Yuba Gap and Yuba Pass predated the railroad by at least 15 years and possibly more. Yuba Pass (on the South Fork of the Yuba) was the point where the wagon trains started leaving the rough mountain country and wound their way down following the Yuba to the Grass Valley/Nevada City Area. Yuba Gap was the wagon crossing from the drainage of the South Fork of the Yuba to the North Fork of the American.
Emmigrant Gap, supposedly discovered by Judah, allowed the railroad to make the same crossing but at a lower elevation and then build up Smart Ridge ending up at Cisco. The route up Smart Ridge did not use either Yuba Gap OR Yuba Pass.
Emmigrant Gap, supposedly discovered by Judah, allowed the railroad to make the same crossing but at a lower elevation and then build up Smart Ridge ending up at Cisco. The route up Smart Ridge did not use either Yuba Gap OR Yuba Pass.
