10/28/2023 0 Comments Golden spike 1869A locomotive sits on the tracks next to the Rocklin Granite Quarry, located 23 miles from Sacramento. 86, "Gorilla," at Rocklin roundhouse in 1869.Ī stereo card, plate number 140, taken by Alfred A. A roundhouse was built there to service the larger engines needed to power trains over the Sierra Range.Ĭentral Pacific Locomotive No. The transcontinental route reached what would become the town of Rocklin on June 6, 1864. The revitalized Historic Old Town and Downtown Roseville include a rail yard viewing platform. 2252, an homage to Roseville's railroad heritage. The entrance to downtown Roseville today is marked by Southern Pacific steam locomotive No. It marked the return of Roseville as a major West Coast rail center, and perhaps the most important railroad center west of the Mississippi River. In 1996, Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific Railroad (which by then had absorbed Central Pacific and California Central), and began a $145 million expansion program in Roseville. The railroad always has been one of the area's most important economic development engines, spurring trade, supporting the growth of the agriculture industry and ancillary businesses, increasing residential development and serving as a major employer with a peak of about 6,000 employees in the 1940s and 1950s. Soon after the freight depot was set up, another resident, Daniel Van Treese, purchased lots in the area and built Roseville’s first hotel. Taylor, who often was referred to in historical documents as Roseville’s first resident. Roseville's first building was an unpainted shed used as a depot and freight shipping station by Cyrus W. Part of the "Scenes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains" stereo card album collection. Seventeen miles from Sacramento, a locomotive travels over Dry Creek Bridge, south of Roseville, California. George McClellan.Ī stereo card, plate number 134, taken by Alfred A. The first time a newspaper mentioned "Roseville" was during the 1864 presidential race between Abraham Lincoln and Gen. The area's name was later changed to Roseville because, according to a popular story, there was an abundance of wild roses growing nearby. Daily passenger service began on April 26, 1864, from Sacramento to "Junction." 29, 1864, the area where they met was designated "Junction" on railroad maps. The Central Pacific and the California Central railroads played a significant role in Roseville's development. Sacramento's deep-water port is accessed by a 43-mile-long channel from San Francisco, making it a hub for transportation and industry. Sacramento - whose name is Spanish for "holy sacrament" - continues to be an economic and cultural engine for California's Central Valley, and is the state’s seventh-largest city as well as its capital since 1854. He died in November 1863 after contracting typhoid fever while crossing Panama. Judah did not live to see this momentous event. As Central Pacific laid tracks eastward, Union Pacific was working westward and the race to Promontory Summit, Utah, where they would eventually meet on May 10, 1869, was on. 8, 1863, ground was broken in Sacramento for the eastbound sections of track. In 1862, as the Civil War raged on, Judah's vision was finally realized when President Abraham Lincoln signed the Pacific Railroad Act authorizing construction of a transcontinental railroad. Along with this list of backers, Judah took his Sierra Route chart to Washington, D.C. In 1861, he obtained financial backing from local businessmen Collis Huntington, Charles Crocker, Leland Stanford, James Bailey and Mark Hopkins. You can find it and use it to create teaching activities on DocsTeach, our online tool for teaching with documents.After consulting with Dutch Flat storekeeper Doc Strong, Judah drew up a route through the Sierra Nevada range over Donner Summit. This image of the ceremony comes from the Historical File of the Department of Agriculture’s Office of Information and is stored in our Still Pictures branch at the National Archives building in College Park, Maryland. The ceremonial spikes and tie were removed and replaced with iron and pine. The Union Pacific’s engine, 119, is on the left the Central Pacific’s Jupiter is on the right. This act joined 1,776 miles of rail belonging to the Union and Central Pacific railroads. The Transcontinental Railroad was completed on May 10, 1869, when four ceremonial gold and silver spikes were driven into a laurel wood railroad tie at Promontory Summit, northwest of Salt Lake City, Utah. Look for these spotlights highlighting great documents, photographs, posters, and more from our holdings. As school lets out and vacation begins, we’re changing up our posts for the summer. Today we shine a spotlight on this photograph of the golden spike ceremony taken in Promontory, Utah.
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