Sacramento Valley Railroad Map, 1854

"Theodore Judah and the first Railroad in the west" by John Putnam, © Philadelphia Examiner, June 11, 2010. (News Article)

Sacramento Valley Railroad Map, 1854

" ... Construction of the first 22 mile section of track began ... February [1854], starting from Front and ‘L’ Street in today’s ‘Old Sacramento' and arrived a year later at the gold town of Negro Bar, soon to become a part of Folsom, California. It took building three trestles and a 600-foot cut along the American river at Negro Bar to complete the job, but the SVRR was now the first railroad west of the Mississippi. The railroad was originally intended to continue to Placerville, north to Marysville and across the bay to San Francisco but only the Placerville line was ever completed and that not for many years. ... " [More]

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