Secrettown Trestle from the West, Central Pacific Railroad – Vintage Print
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Secrettown Trestle from the West, Central Pacific Railroad. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Secrettown Trestle from the West, Central Pacific Railroad
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Secrettown Trestle, seen here from the west, carried the Central Pacific Railroad across a steep, timber-built gap in the Sierra Nevada during the line's push eastward. The Central Pacific was one of two companies building the first transcontinental railroad, and its crews relied heavily on trestles like this one, since wooden spans could be raised quickly across ravines where earthwork would have taken far longer. Built in the 1860s, the Central Pacific's route through the mountains depended on such structures, and the view from the west shows how the track was carried high above the terrain. Photographs of these works are valued today as records of the engineering that tied the coasts together.
| Original scan | 4,775 × 2,408 px · prints to 16 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 1s00467u |
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