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The California Central Railroad (CCRR) was established April 21, 1857, to build a railroad from Folsom to Marysville as an extension of the Sacramento Valley Railroad, which was completed in 1856 from Sacramento to Folsom. [3] [4] The president of California Central was Colonel C. L. Wilson and chief engineer was his friend Theodore Judah.
Labor, lawmakers remember “a powerful force for good.” ... marched down Capitol Mall and around the California state Capitol on Labor Day in 2005. ... secretary of the Sacramento Labor Council ...
California's symbolic and tangible connection to the rest of the country was fused at Promontory Summit, Utah, as the "last spike" was driven to join the tracks of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads, thereby completing the first transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869 (before that time, only a few local rail lines operated in the ...
As constructed, the Sacramento Valley Railroad ran from the Sacramento River levee at Front and "L" Street in present-day Old Sacramento and terminated at Folsom. On February 22, 1856, the first train operated over the entire 22.9-mile (36.9 km) line. Theodore Judah was the Chief Engineer of the
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The construction of the Western Pacific Railroad began in February 1865 near San Jose and northward under a contract taken by J.B. Cox & Myers. [6] After Chinese laborers had helped complete the San Francisco and San Jose Railroad in 1864, a force of 500 Chinese laborers was grading the roadbed and laying tracks for the Western Pacific in 1865. [7]
Representatives have met with a group of Viva workers who provided “shocking details of repeated labor violations,” CLC’s executive director wrote.
Sacramento Northern Railway 1925–1983 (Chico to Sacramento to Oakland after purchase of the Oakland Antioch and Eastern/San Francisco–Sacramento Railroad in 1928.) Sacramento Northern Railroad 1918–1925 (Chico to Sacramento.) Purchased by WP in 1921. Northern Electric Railway 1907–1918 (Chico to Sacramento.) Name changed to SN in 1918.