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The Last Remaining Rail Car That ‘Witnessed’ the Transcontinental Railroad’s Momentous Day

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    News article: The Last Remaining Rail Car That ‘Witnessed’ the Transcontinental Railroad’s Momentous Day

    ‘Crocker’s Car’ brought the tycoon Leland Stanford to connect the East Coast to the West 150 years ago

      x31 Chief Commissioner

    Location: gallifrey
    Amazing that a single car has been saved from the entire event which would have happened I think overnight our time.

    No other rolling stock has been saved from the event.

    The Last Remaining Rail Car That ‘Witnessed’ the Transcontinental Railroad’s Momentous Day
    Posted: 10 May 2019 12:29

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      apw5910 Chief Commissioner

    Location: Location: Location.
    Amazing that a single car has been saved from the entire event which would have happened I think overnight our time.

    No other rolling stock has been saved from the event.

    The Last Remaining Rail Car That ‘Witnessed’ the Transcontinental Railroad’s Momentous Day
    x31
    Anything been saved from our own transcontinental join-up(s)?
    Posted: 10 May 2019 12:32
      x31 Chief Commissioner

    Location: gallifrey
    great question what steam locos would have been used back then in 1918?

    Maybe the steam locos being used on the construction by COMRAILS where then allocated to freight and passenger?  I know from reading here there were two passenger trains per week each way on the transcon between Kalgoorlie and Port Augusta the east bound trains arriving around 4am into PA where passengers were woken up and transferred to the NG to Quorn and onto Peterborough and then BG to Adelaide.
    Posted: 10 May 2019 12:35
      Dangersdan707 Chief Commissioner

    Location: On a Thing with Internet
    Amazing that a single car has been saved from the entire event which would have happened I think overnight our time.

    No other rolling stock has been saved from the event.

    The Last Remaining Rail Car That ‘Witnessed’ the Transcontinental Railroad’s Momentous Day
    Anything been saved from our own transcontinental join-up(s)?
    apw5910
    1st Loco to Traverse it has been not sure about rolling stock
    Posted: 10 May 2019 12:40
      x31 Chief Commissioner

    Location: gallifrey
    Found this list of Narrow gauge Steamers from CR.

    http://www.comrails.com/cr_locos/c0100_s_s.html

    What class would the locos have been at that time doing the construction and exactly where was the transcon joined?
    Posted: 10 May 2019 12:44

    Last edited by x31 on 10 May 2019 12:45; edited 1 time in total
      Dangersdan707 Chief Commissioner

    Location: On a Thing with Internet
    Found this list of Narrow gauge Steamers from CR.

    http://www.comrails.com/cr_locos/c0100_s_s.html

    What class would the locos have been at that time doing the construction and exactly where was the transcon joined?
    x31
    CR G Class G1/2 Don't know for sure
    Posted: 10 May 2019 12:46

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