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Mark Petersen

September 19, 2020 05:10PM

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That's a really unappreciated part of RR history. The amount of manual labor that went into to building so much of the country's RR infrastructure. Picks, Shovels and maybe horse drawn Fresno scrapers. Its also a testimony to the engineers and surveyors who laid out those routes trying to take advantage of the terrain where they could to minimize earthwork.Not always the shortest route vs. least earth to be moved.

Steven Ambrose touches on this in "Nothing Like it in the World" about the building of the Transcontinental RR.

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A little beyond Como on the line to Buena Vista	Jason Midyette	September 19, 2020 08:57AM
Re: A little beyond Como on the line to Buena Vista - part II	Jason Midyette	September 19, 2020 09:05AM
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Re: A little beyond Como on the line to Buena Vista	Stewart Rhine	September 19, 2020 01:49PM
Re: A little beyond Como on the line to Buena Vista	Mark Petersen	September 19, 2020 05:10PM
Re: A little beyond Como on the line to Buena Vista	James	September 19, 2020 06:13PM
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