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 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

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

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Photo courtesy Heidi Sproat, August 2018
HCS 9/24/2019

We Would Love to Have You Visit Soon!  Please stop by the Joseph Research Library Cabin most Thursdays between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. where our volunteers are hard at work.


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Joseph Research Library Cabin
Open most Thursdays
10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

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P.O. Box 893
Truckee, CA  96160
(530) 582-0893

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