Donner Pass Southern Pacific’s Sierra Crossing By John R. Signor Hard Cover

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Donner Pass Southern Pacific’s Sierra Crossing By John R. Signor Hard Cover
 
Donner Pass Southern Pacifics Sierra Crossing By John R. Signor
Hard Cover
290 pages  Indexed
Copyright 1985 Second Printing January 1988

Table of Contents
Introduction 9
1- Construction and Early Operation 1860-1899 11
2 - The Harriman Influence 1900-192951
3 - The Modern Steam Era 1930-1955145
4 - Contemporary Operations 1956-1985 211
Epilogue 275
Appendix 276
A - Mountain Passenger Trains 1899-1984 276
B - Seasonal Snowfall at Summit 1878-1926, Norden 1926-1985279
C - Selected Timetables 280
Bibliography287
Index 288

The Southern Pacific tamed the great American deserts and crossed more mountain summits than any other railroad in the United States, but "King of the Grades" was Donner Pass, or better known to the men of the Sacramento Division as the "Mountain." Everything about Donner Pass seemed monumental; the grade, the engines, the heavy tonnage, the men, and the heavy yearly snowfall.
This story begins with surveyor Theodore D. Judah and the four Sacramento businessmen, who took Judah's plan for a Pacific Railroad and actually pushed the rails of the Central Pacific Railroad over the "impossible" 7,000-foot Sierra Nevada summit. The "Overland Route," of which the rails of the Southern Pacific form the western segment, is still the ultimate proving ground for the men and the locomotives of the SP, 125 years after the meeting of the rails at Promontory, Utah, in 1869.


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