How many Central Pacific Railroad tunnels?
How many Central Pacific Railroad tunnels were blasted through the granite mountains of the Sierra Nevada?
posted from CPRR Discussion Group at 4:14 PM
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
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"Between Omaha and Sacramento there are nineteen tunnels. Four of these are on the Union Pacific and fifteen on the Central."
Note that additional tunnels were later added , including, when the second track over the Sierra Nevada mountains was built.
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