Rival Rails: The Race to Build America's Greatest Transcontinental Railroad by Walter R. Borneman

Author:Walter R. Borneman [Borneman, Walter R.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Transportation, 20th Century, Railroads - United States - History - 19th Century, Railroads, General, United States, Railroads - United States - History - 20th Century, 19th Century, History
ISBN: 9781400065615
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Amazon: 1400065615
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2010-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

Of the major towns along the Atlantic and Pacific route through Arizona, all except Flagstaff and Williams were named for men somehow associated with the railroad. Edward Winslow was president of the Frisco and vice president of the Atlantic and Pacific; Lewis Kingman and H. R. Holbrook were surveyors and construction engineers (the town of Holbrook was originally called Horsehead Crossing); and Joseph Seligman was a prominent Frisco stockholder and financier.

The construction snafu at Cañon Diablo had also given Price and Co. time to complete a second major bridge just 5 miles to the west at Cañon Padre. Not quite as spectacular as the structure at Cañon Diablo, the bridge at Cañon Padre was only 230 feet long. Its measurements had been precise, and once track was laid across Cañon Diablo, tracklayers spiked their way across without a pause.

Up ahead at the base of the San Francisco Peaks was the booming lumber town of Flagstaff, already boasting one hundred houses. Across the dry mesas of northern Arizona, the San Francisco Peaks were a welcome oasis of green and a ready source of ponderosa pine for ties and lumber. The first train steamed into Flagstaff on August 1, 1882.11

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