Bonanza Railroads
Description:... "Each [of these five railroads] had its great ambitions, to monopolize a bonanza; to make some obscure town Chicago of the West; to build on across the continent, or at least into the next state. Eventuallly they all faded away, either from slow starvation as the mines played out, or by being gobbled by the great transcontinental which itself was started on a shoestring. But each had its days of glory." Covers the Sacramento Valley Railroad, the San Francisco & San Jose Railroad, the Virginia & Truckee Railroad, the Eureka & Palisade Railroad, and the Nevada Central Railroad.
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