By June, 1865 the Placerville & Sacramento Valley Railroad had only reached Shingle Springs and, although it is now connected to the main road that carried nearly all of the freight and passenger traffic to and from the silver mines…
Category: Sacramento Valley Railroad
Charles Lincoln Wilson – The Sacramento Valley Railroad, Part IV
The agreement to bring the railroad to Placerville happened just a few months after Leland Stanford, now Governor of California, had lifted the first shovelful of dirt to start the building of the Central Pacific Railroad east from Sacramento. Unfortunately,…
Charles Lincoln Wilson – The Sacramento Valley Railroad, Part III
Though the Sacramento Valley Railroad had reached Folsom on January 1, 1856, it was not yet completed. The original plan was to continue to Marysville, but like always, money was the problem. Even with the four engines pulling trains loaded…
Charles Lincoln Wilson – The Sacramento Valley Railroad, Part II
Showing the ingenuity that helped build California, at a point approximately 20 miles from Sacramento a Mr. Anderson took the subcontract to grade and build the embankment for the new railroad. He had prospected the area before and knew that…