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Hetch Hetchy and its Dam Railroad by Ted Wurm w/ dust jjacket 1990
Hetch Hetchy and its Dam Railroad by Ted Wurm
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
Copyright 1990
By Ted Wurm
296 Pages
480 informative illustrations!
The story of the uniquely equipped railroad that serviced the camps, dams, tunnels and penstocks of the 20 year construction project to bring water from the Sierra to San Francisco.
San Francisco's Hetch Hetchy water project high in the Sierra Nevada presented unusual probin equipment and supply, but the men of the Hetch Hetchy Railroad met the challenge and quickly proved they had the best railroad by a damsite..
Water, water on all sides, but not a drop to drink. That was San Francisco's position at the turn of the century as the Peninsula's water sources were outstripped by population and the threat of fire. It took courage and foresight to decide that the City should seek its water in mountains 150 miles to the east, to buck the Federal Governover use of the Hetch Hetchy Valley, and then embark on a building program of dams, tunnels and powerhouses costing $100 million in City funds and taking 20 years to complete. But Mayor James Rolph, Jr., and City Engineer M. M. O'Shaughnessy had all the courage and drive the project required. Ever since 1934, San Francisco has had plentiful water that will last into the kext century.
Preface and Acknowledgments ... .6
Introduction....9
1 San Francisco's Early Water Supply.13
2 The Twelve-Year Fight .....17
3 Tuolumne County Background . ..29
4 Starting the Big Job.......41
5 Building Hetch Hetchy Railroad.... .47
6 We Have a Railroad! .........63
7 Preliminary Construction .....73
8 The Big Dam at Hetch Hetchy . . .85
9 A Mountain Tunnel Gets Started . . .. 105
10 Mountain Division Tunnel Completed . .. 119
11 Life in Boomtown Groveland ....... 127
12 Groveland Swings! ......... 135
13 Rail Lines All Over the Place ..... 139
14 Gasoline Alley ........... 151
15 Steam Train Operation ......... 159
16 Excursions, Wrecks and Worms.... .. 169
17 Priest, Moccasin and Disaster ....... 179
18 Westward by Tunnel and Pipeline . .. 193
19 Longest Tunnel in the World . ... 209
20 Plentiful Water at Last ....... 229
21 Hetch Hetchy Railroad Lives On .. .. 241
22 Sierra Railway Helps to Raise the Dam . .. 251
23 End of the Line Heralds a New Era.. 263
Appendix 1 Lives Lost in Hetch Hetchy Construction . . 284Appendix 2 Roster of Railroad Equipment . .. 286
Bibliography............ 287
Index.............290
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