Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 150
onceived the design of the Central PacificRailroad, and actually carried it into effect, were not persons experiencedin railway construction; but five middle-aged traders of Sacramento, two ofwhom where drapers, one a wholesale grocer, and the others ironmongers,believing that such a railway should… … Fig. 55.—Snow Plough. named Judah, who was a sanguine advocate of the scheme, and made thepreHminary surveys, if he did not plan the Hne. The hne is consideredone of the best appointed and best managed in the States; yet the projectwas at first ridiculed and pronounced impracticable by engineers of…
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