Why do you think workers were organized into groups?

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CPRR rail line into Wyoming, nearly to Lander, WY

From: "Kim Viner" kdviner@msn.com

I am a senior docent at the Laramie Plains Museum in Laramie WY. Recently I have been studying the history of the construction of the transcontinental railroad.

I was discussing a topic with a museum researcher about miles built per day when he mentioned the well documented "10 miles in a day" episode.

He also said that the Central Pacific RR went on to build rail line into Wyoming, nearly to Lander WY.

He said that the line was never used but that the rails remained in place until well into the mid 1900's.

I have some doubts about this and have searched high and low and can find no reference to such a CPRR line.

The only RR line that I can find any record of anywhere near Lander, WY was a line put in by the U.S. Steel company that had an iron mine near South Pass.

That line was used from the 1960's to 1983.

Do you have any information that would confirm the CPRR built a line into Wyoming in the 1860's? ...

—Kim Viner, Laramie, WY

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Laramie Boomerang, June 23, 1885.