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I came across an interesting autobiography of James Kleiser.
He worked on the snowsheds and bridges of the CPRR in the 1860s.
Robert Louis Stevenson's ["Across The Plains"] as a pdf. Stevenson crossed the continent by emigrant train in 1879 and wrote in some detail about the experience. The Central Pacific portion of the trip was in the then-brand new emigrant sleeping cars which the CP had just introduced, and which the UP soon copied.
Kyle
Note my NEW address of kwyatt@parks.ca.gov
Kyle K. Wyatt
Curator of History & Technology
California State Railroad Museum
posted from CPRR Discussion Group at 1:32 PM
3 Comments:
From: "Randall Hees" hees@ix.netcom.com
Thanks Kyle.
It is particularly interesting for me, because the Mr Patterson he visits
in San Jose, then takes a trip with (top of page 22) is the Mr Patterson of
the Patterson House at Ardenwood.
Randy Hees
On the Robert Louis Stevenson item (at bottom), the emigrant sleeping car that he rode in was the one L. M. Clement had a hand in. It had JUST been introduced by the CPRR. The CPRR sent a sample to the UPRR Omaha shops which the UPRR copied - and drawings of that version have been published.
In the C. P. Huntington papers there is a sketch of the proposed emigrant sleeping car interior from Ben Welch.
Kyle
Note my NEW address of kwyatt@parks.ca.gov
Kyle K. Wyatt
Curator of History & Technology
California State Railroad Museum
A drawing of the (at that time) proposed CP emigrant sleeping car from Ben Welch, [is] included in a letter to CP Huntington and preserved in his papers:
C.P. Huntington Papers, Series I, Reel 15, Letter of Oct. 3, 1878 A.N. Towne to CP Huntington; Ben Welch sketch of proposed berths for emigrant cars.
Kyle K. Wyatt
Curator of History & Technology
California State Railroad Museum
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