Friday, March 05, 2021

"Laying the Rails to History: The Arrival of the Transcontinenal Railroad in Alameda and Oakland"

"Laying the Rails to History: The Arrival of the Transcontinenal Railroad in Alameda and Oakland" by Dennis Evanosky, © Alameda Sun, March 3, 2021. (Six part History Article)

"When A. A. Cohen moved to Alameda in 1857, he had no idea that, 12 years later, he would be riding on his train with Leland Stanford as the railroad and ferry line that he created fastened the Central Pacific’s Railroad’s final link to the West Coast. ... " [More]

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