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The Pacific Railroad Surveys (1853–1855) were a series of explorations of the American West designed to find and document possible routes for a transcontinental railroad across North America. The expeditions included surveyors, scientists, and artists and resulted in an immense body of data covering at least 400,000 square miles (1,000,000 km ...
The expedition lasted for nine months and traveled 1,800 miles (2,900 km). [1] The expedition was one of several surveys approved in 1853-4, when funding was added to the War Department budget. This allowed Secretary of War Jefferson Davis to send out surveying expeditions to explore potential transcontinental railroad routes across the United ...
Surveys were run to connect the railroad with the Southern Pacific line at its Long Wharf at Port Los Angeles, which was at the location of the current Will Rogers State Beach lifeguard headquarters at 15100 W Pacific Coast Highway, Pacific Palisades, California. Surveys were also run to connect with the Bakersfield & Ventura Railway near ...
Pacific Railroad Surveys, which consisted of five surveys to find potential transcontinental railroad routes. These survey reports were compiled into twelve volumes, Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, made under the direction ...
The line Beckwith surveyed was used to compete with the Central Pacific Railroad. His route connected California, Salt Lake City, and Oakland. Their findings were published by the United States Department of War and presented to the Senate to inform their decision for the location of the Transatlantic Railroad. [3]
Vallecito was a station for other stage companies until 1877 when the railroad replaced the stagecoach for long-distance travel between California and Arizona. Completion of the Southern Pacific Railroad between Los Angeles and Yuma in 1877 ended the large scale use of the Southern Emigrant Trail. Hart's widow abandoned the station in the late ...
In 1856, a Railroad Survey Expedition modified the Tucson Cutoff route, passing south of Nugent's Pass using Dragoon Pass and the Middle Crossing or San Pedro Crossing of the river instead of the Lower Crossing below Los Alamos. [8]
The 1855 Railroad Survey expedition camped at Carrizo in June and its report described the place: Carrizo creek runs over a series of stratified clays and gravels, derived from the decomposition of the primary rocks, chiefly syenite, loose drifted pebbles of which cover up the sand beds of the valley.