California's Railroad Era 1850-1911 By Ward McAfee w/dust jacket SIGNED

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Californias Railroad Era 1850-1911 by Ward McAfee *SIGNED

Californias Railroad Era 1850-1911

Ward McAfee ** Signed 1/21/77

Hard Cover dust jacket

256 Pages

Contents

Introduction7

Preface11

Part One Dreams and Plans

1. Arguments for a Transcontinental Railroad15

2. A Question of Routes23

3. Local Rivalries and Transportation Needs29

Part Two The First Transcontinental Railroad

4. Sacramento's Victory47

5. Obstruction57

6. Race for Commercial Empire73

Part Three The Octopus

7. Terminal Fever91

8. The Southern Pacific107

Part Four Attempts at Governmental Control

9. No More Subsidies133

10. The Movement to Legislate Lower Rates143

11. Constitutional Reform163

Part Five Change Without Control

12. Regulating the Regulators173

13. San Diego and the Santa Fe181

14. San Francisco's Reaction197

15. The Challenge of Despair211

Part Six An Era Ends

16. The Progressive Response221

17. Epilogue233

Appendix

Bibliography237

Index250

This is the dramatic and fascinating story of California's railroads during their golden era the time when determined men tied the Atlantic to the Pacific with bands of steel rails and then extended their empire throughout the State.

The construction and completion of the transcontinental railroad (Central Pacific-Union Pacific) was considered to be an engineering marvel and a financial gamble. Its completion not only opened up the American West to migration, but changed its course in history. Between 1850 and 1911, railroads were center stage in California's history. During this time the Southern Pacific, the outgrowth of the Central Pacific, obtained great political influence in the State.

This volume presents, for the first time, California's over-all railroad story. Featured is the building of the Central Pacific eastward to meet the Union Pacific, the construction of Southern Pacific lines within California, and the building of the Sunset Route into the Southwest. Also portrayed is how the Southern Pacific prevented the Texas Pacific from reaching a California terminal, and the outmaneuvering of Collis P. Huntington and his Southern Pacific by the Atlantic and Pacific with Santa Fe

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