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CPRR Discussion Group Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum Friday, April 19, 2024 Palace Hotel San Francisco – Overland RR Ticket Office Palace Hotel , San Francisco – Overland RR Ticket Office [ Fares – Timetable ] Watkins Stereview #1665, detail of the Railroad Ticket Office, c. 1872 posted from CPRR Discussion Group at 1:00 PM 0 comments Thursday, February 29, 2024 The Pacific Railroad - The Hartford Daily Times, Hartford, Connecticut, August 15, 1853 THE HARTFORD DAILY TIMES Hartford, Connecticut, August 15, 1853, No. 3057. The Pacific Railroad. The Washington Union of Friday contains & well written "leader" on the Constitutional questions which surround the construction of the Pacific Railroad. The article is doubtless, from the pen of secretary Davis. It is carefully written, and maybe looked upon as the programme marked out by the Cabinet. We give a quotation: "It may turn out, and we think it probably will, that the determination of the government to furnish effectual aid in the construction of the road through its own territory, wherein lie the great physical obstacles, will give to the enterprise so much certainty of success, that individual and municipal capital will be enabled to construct not only one but many diverging tracks through the States through whose territory it may pass. In that event, the original strict doctrine of construction stands intact. If it becomes necessary, however, for the government to give aid to private capital to promote the enterprise in the States, then it does not follow that an appropriation from the treasury will be essential-the aid may be derived from the public lands in those States; and, in that event, the old strict-construction principle may not be disturbed. But even if it becomes essential, in order to insure the success of the enterprise, that money should be appropriated by the government to be expended in aid of the work in the States, it may be found, upon careful investigation, that the power to protect our Pacific possessions, in obedience to an express trust assumed by the government, may so far be regarded as a specified or express grant in the Constitution, as to authorize the appropriation." That the Government has a right to construct all kinds of roads through the territories, no one will question. We imagine that constructing works through the States will not be so easily disposed of. There is a large body of men in every Congress who believe that the movements of the General Government should be as circumscribed as possible. State rights should be preserved at all cost. The nearer we keep matters to the people, the better their matters are managed. If the National Government has a right to enter this State and build a railroad, or a portion of a road we cannot perceive why it may not enter and build up a system of canals in opposition to those already in existence. Local affairs are best managed by local authorities. Wrong may be done by our Common Councils as well as by more distant bodies: but such wrongs meet with a much more speedy adjustment. Had the robberies of the New York Aldermen been committed by Congress, the villainies would have gone on increasing for years. State sovereignty should never be invaded. The National Government should be tied down to the plain letter of the Constitution. Congress can and should build the Pacific Railroad through the territories. The moment it enters the States, however, that moment the enterprise should pass into the hands of individuals. Congress has no more right to run a railroad through this State than it has to go to Syracuse and open a salt boiling establishment. –Albany Knickerbocker posted from CPRR Discussion Group at 7:29 AM 1 comments Thursday, February 15, 2024 25th Anniversary, CPRR Museum Website Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum A quarter century: 1999-2024 Stopped counting years ago after more than Five million visitors! Happy 25th Anniversary and thanks for all the kind words ! posted from CPRR Discussion Group at 2:24 AM 0 comments Monday, January 01, 2024 CPRR Discussion Group Welcome to the CPRR Discussion Group at the Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum . See HOW TO POST to the CPRR Discussion Group . © 2024 CPRR.org. Use of this Web site constitutes acceptance of the User Agreement which permits personal use web viewing only; no copying; arbitration; no warranty. Only send content intended for publication . Links are not merchant endorsements – caveat emptor. If you are under 13 years of age you may read this message board, but you may not participate . CPRR Museum Category Tags: Transcontinental Railroad Central Pacific Railroad , Union Pacific Railroad Railroads , Trains , Locomotives History of the American West , Chinese railroad workers Photography , Photographs , Stereoviews , Stereographs Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum @CPRR #CPRR Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum. Copyright © 2024, CPRR.org posted from CPRR Discussion Group at 5:42 AM 0 comments Saturday, October 28, 2023 "A Golden nugget in the middle of Nebraska" New Golden Spike Monument: "A Golden nugget in the middle of Nebraska" by Penny Craft, © North Platte Bulletin, October 27, 2023. (News Article) " ... A 43.23-foot [square root of the year 1869] tall golden spike [4 foot square aluminum covered with gold leaf] stopped in North Platte during a nine-city tour that began in Lexington, Ky. and continued to its destination in Utah. The monument [by artist Douwe Blumberg] arrived Oct. 23 [2023] at the Utah State Capitol. It will be on display there, but scheduled to be permanently placed in June 2024 at the Golden Spike Park at Reeder Ranch , an 8-acre plot through which the original transcontinental line ran, on the outskirts of Brigham City, Utah. ... " [More] Also see, Video from the Golden Spike Foundation . [Courtesy Google Alerts .] posted from CPRR Discussion Group at 9:24 AM 0 comments Friday, September 08, 2023 Fire Lookout on Red Mountain From: "Timothy Roumph" tim699r@yahoo.com Today a friend and I climbed to the lookout on Red Mountain. We took an unmarked trail from the Fordyce Lake Road, very steep but takes you right to the lookout. While up there we met a communications worker at the other end of the mountain and he told me he believed there was a railroad grade nearby, we never saw any grades. My best guess if there was a RR grade it would’ve been more than likely for logging and at much lower elevations. I have followed many of them in the Plumas and Tahoe National Forests and have become familiar with what they look like even after many decades of the rails having been removed. Another guy told me the building was used by the railroads to look at the tracks below by I-80 (now) not there then for dangers such as snow blocking the path of the trains. There are still a few poles standing which I believe were telephone line poles, the poles going directly to the building. Can you ... tell me if the building was used by RR personnel to look for dangers to the track or was only used as a fire lookout? Also any info about any RR grades relatively close to the building? ... –Tim Roumph, Sparks, Nevada posted from CPRR Discussion Group at 10:43 PM 4 comments Friday, July 21, 2023 National Archives National Archives: Pacific Railway Act An Act to Aid in the Construction of a Railroad and Telegraph Line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to Secure to the Government the Use of the Same for Postal, Military, and Other Purposes Other titles: Act of July 1, 1862 (Pacific Railroad Act), 12 STAT 489, which established the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad Railroad Maps in the Cartographic Research Room Records Relating to Railroads in the Cartographic Section of the...