Description: PC0002 Image no. 259. Coldstream Valley east of Donner Lake
Photographer/artist: Alfred A. Hart
Date taken: 1860s
Photo location: Coldstream Valley
Type: photo
Subject: Transcontinental Railroad Construction
County: Placer
Source: Stanford Collection
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Contributor: Stanford Libraries
Notes: Original image is 3.7 MB. HCS 1/14/2022. Image at Stanford site. See also Goldbaum and Huffman's 2012 book, Waiting for the Cars, p. 278. The authors note that the railroad climbs 1,147 feet between Truckee and the Summit. They further explain that the railroad engineers found a line for 14 miles of railroad by "folding" it into a long "S" curve running deep into Coldstream Valley, then around the "nose" of Schallenberger Ridge.
Of added note, the sawmill on the far track marks Stanford, a station named for Leland Stanford's brother, Phillip Stanford, the mill's proprietor. Although long gone, the name has stuck - the "Stanford Curve", also known as curve no. 385. See also LUM0018.
Rights: NOT FOR SALE; research only
Identifier: AAH0052
Serial Number: 2106
Donation: Alfred A. Hart Collection (AAH) collection (#34)
