Golden Spike 150th Sesquicentennial Celebration Events and Articles

• 150th Anniversary Celebration of the Transcontinental Railroad
• 150 Years of Freemasons in Truckee
• 150 Years of Railroad Snow Removal
• A City within a City - Truckee's Chinatown
• Auto Travel to Donner Lake on the Lincoln Highway
• Boca Brewery
• Donnerwood - The History of Early Filming in Truckee
• First Bicycle Over the Summit and Across the Country
• First Motorized Crossing of the U.S.
• Lake Tahoe Railway and Transportation Co.
• Logging Railroad
• Meaning of the Railroad Part I   |   Part II, p. 5  |  Part III, p. 6
• Other Uses for Snowsheds
• Snowsheds - Protection of Not Just Trains Over the Summit
• The Chinese Transcontinental Railroad
• The First Automobile Over the Sierras
• The Ladies of Truckee's Jibboom Street
• Theodore Judah - Engineering Visionary for the Railroad
• Transcontinental Train Travel - Riding the Railroad
• Trout Creek
• Truckee's Ice Industry (with sources)
• Truckee's Notorious Beginnings
• Truckee's Slammer - The Town's Jail, 1875 - 1964
• Tunnel 6 - The Great Bore Over the Sierras
• Winter Fun

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News articles:

Mercury News, April 28, 2019 article, Historic Sesquicentennial; Celebrations Hit the Rails

Sierra Sun, July 14, 2019, Getting on track: Transcontinental train travel opened the West to all

Photo courtesy Heidi Sproat, August 2018

HCS 9/24/2019