Description: PC0002 Image no. 204. Heading out of east port tunnel no. 8 from Donner Lake railroad. Probable Chinese tea carrier
Photographer/artist: Alfred A. Hart
Date taken: 1860s
Photo location: Summit Tunnel
Type: photo
Subject:
County: Placer
Source: Stanford Collection
References:
Contributor: Stanford Libraries
Notes: Original image is 3.9 MB. Image at Stanford site. See also TRR0004. HCS 1/15/2022.
Attributed to Alfred A. Hart, p. 32, in Mayer & Vose 1975 book, Makin' Tracks. Also see Goldbaum and Huffman's 2012 book, Waiting for the Cars, p. 258. The authors explain that this water or tea carrier (probably Chinese) is outside the east end of tunnel no. 8 in the summer of 1867. Chief Engineer Montague called this the "finest tunnel entrance" on the entire CP. The authors explain that tunnel no. 8 is a 375 foot bore through Black Point. Like Summit Tunnel no. 6, nitroglycerin was also used in boring this tunnel.
Rights: NOT FOR SALE; research only
Identifier: AAH0036
Serial Number: 2090
Donation: Alfred A. Hart Collection (AAH) collection (#34)
