Pushing the Central Pacific Railroad across the Sierra Nevada

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Pushing the Central Pacific Railroad across the Sierra Nevada

… The building of the Central Pacific railroad over the Sierra Nevada range was an outstanding enterprise, executed under the orders of Charles Crocker and his foreman J.H. Strobridge, after the engineering works of the defunct Theodore Judah. In order to keep an average grade of 105 feet, eighteen tunnels with a total length of over 17'000 feet had to be bored through the Sierra granite. Most of this work was done by drills and …

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