Tuesday, January 21, 2014

How many Central Pacific Railroad tunnels?

How many Central Pacific Railroad tunnels were “blasted through the granite mountains” of the Sierra Nevada?

2 Comments:

Blogger CPRR Discussion Group said...

"Between Omaha and Sacramento there are nineteen tunnels. Four of these are on the Union Pacific and fifteen on the Central."

1/21/2014 4:17 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Note that additional tunnels were later added , including, when the second track over the Sierra Nevada mountains was built.

2/02/2015 6:08 PM  

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