UPRR CPRR Emigrant Baggage Tags - Omaha to San Francisco

From: "Roger Morris" roger@tworockmedia.com

I have several CPRR baggage tags - two Hoole emigrant UP&CPRR and one Thomas. These have the original leather straps in remarkably good condition. I would like to learn more about them.

My Grandfather was Chief Clerk of the SP in the early 1900's.

Roger Morris
Two Rock Media, Inc.

Value of an old railroad map?

From: "Dean Hitchman" djhitchman@gmail.com

I have an old copy of New Rail Road and County map of northern California and Nevada – what is it's value?

When did CPRR go to SPRR?

When did CP go to SP? [as a leased line, later merged]

1880 rail made by G.H. Hutte

From: "Merle Goad" goadmgg@yahoo.com

I have a piece of 1880 rail made by G.H. Hutte. Was that used on the CPRR or even used in the USA?

—Merle Goad

Across Donner Pass in 1845 - Frémont's 3rd expeditionary entry into California by the Truckee/Donner Pass route

From: "Bob Graham" bobgraham@longcamp.com

I have recently finished a long look at John Charles Frémont's 1845 3rd exped entry into CA by the Truckee/Donner Pass route using Frémont's narrative accounts and determined coordinates.

It is very interesting, because the Frémont's descent was not along the emigrant wagon route down the Bear River, but rather a ridge route that anticipated the CPRR route and the road built to build that RR, today's I-80.

It is ironic that on completion of his privately-funded 1854 38th parallel RR survey, Frémont outright rejected the feasibility of crossing the Sierra at that latitude and suggested turning south to near Walker Pass, crossing there to the San Joaquin Valley, and then north to SF.

I don't think anyone has previously looked at that '45 route.
Here I have it mapped by narrative and determined coordinates:

Across Donner Pass in '45

—Bob Graham, Sacramento

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CPRR planted a million eucalyptus trees

"Study to help Benicians choose trees" by Donna Beth Weilenman, © The Benicia Herald, July 13, 2010. (News Article)

" ... In the 1870s, Central Pacific Railroad planted 1 million [eucalyptus] seedlings in San Joaquin Valley, hoping to grow materials for ties, poles, posts and firewood, as well as to beautify land next to the tracks the railroad hoped to sell to settlers. But the railroad soon discovered eucalyptus ties would warp, shrink, twist and crack if not seasoned precisely. The wood wouldn’t hold a spike securely in place, and it quickly rotted. Later, the Santa Fe Railroad would make the same mistake, although on a smaller scale. ... " [More]

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