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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 ...
From Report of the Chief Engineer Theodore Judah: Preliminary Surveys and Future Business of the Sacramento Valley Railroad (Sacramento, Democratic State Journal, 1854). Cross and longitudinal views of a section of the original 35-pound-per-yard (17.4 kg/m) Welsh iron "pear" rail used to lay the SVRR in 1856
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 ...
This new wagon route became known as Cooke's Road, or Sonora Road, as much of the central part of the route passed through what was then the northern frontier of the state of Sonora, Mexico. In 1848, a U.S. Army expedition of 1st Dragoons under Major Lawrence P. Graham marched from Chihuahua to California, through Janos , then westward to ...
The Hueneme, Malibu & Port Los Angeles Railway was a standard-gauge, 15-mile railroad (24 km) in Malibu, California.It was founded by Frederick Hastings Rindge (1857–1905) and operated on his 13,000-acre ranch (5,300 ha) along the coast, which encompassed most of what is today Malibu.
William Phipps Blake (June 1, 1826 – May 22, 1910) was an American geologist, mining consultant, and educator.Among his best known contributions include being the first college trained chemist to work full-time for a United States chemical manufacturer (1850), and serving as a geologist with the Pacific Railroad Survey of the Far West (1853–1856), where he observed and detailed a theory on ...
Sacramento Southern Railroad; San Francisco cable car system; San Francisco Historic Trolley Festival; Santa Cruz, Big Trees and Pacific Railway; Sierra Railroad; Silver Line (San Diego Trolley) Society for the Preservation of Carter Railroad Resources; Southern California Railway Museum
The main route of the Oregon Trail (green line) and California Trail (thick red line), including the Applegate Trail (northernmost thinner red line) The Applegate Trail was an emigrant trail through the present-day U.S. states of Idaho , Nevada , California , and Oregon used in the mid-19th century by emigrants on the American frontier .