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Union Construction Company
.../ [[Narrow Gauge Railroads of California#Industrial|Industrial]] / [[Union Construction Company]] :[http://www.pacificng.com/imglib/main.php?g2_itemId=7810 Collected Union Construction Company Photographs.]

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Union Construction Company
.../ [[Narrow Gauge Railroads of California#Industrial|Industrial]] / [[Union Construction Company]] :[http://www.pacificng.com/imglib/main.php?g2_itemId=7810 Collected Union Construction Company Photographs.]

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Butt Lake Dam
...ter was of no use to the new railroad and left unused during the course of construction. Ultimately the locomotive was left in place as the reservoir filled and fo [[Category:30in Gauge Railroads]] [[Category:Construction]]

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Utah & Pleasant Valley Railroad
...nt Valley southeast of their hometown of Springville, Utah. No significant construction was accomplished until the company was sold to Charles Scofield in 1878.

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Arizona Narrow Gauge Railroad
...ding bonds sold by the railroad to the county halted construction in 1884. Construction would not resume until 1886 when county supervisors ordered interest paymen ...ogress, a downpour destroyed the Rillito wash bridge in September 1887 and construction was again halted.

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HK Porter-CN-848-1882
====Butt Lake Construction==== ...the [[Butt Lake Dam|Butt Lake dam]] near Chester, California. To reach the construction site the locomotive was hauled into a steep canyon. When the dam was comple

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Car Builder's Dictionaries
...ook, defining the proper terms or names of each and every part used in the construction of railway cars, and a description of the use of the same. This publication Contained in each volume are dictionaries outlining the terms used in car construction, engravings of cars, hardware, fixtures and a healthy dose of period advert

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Tunnels of the South Pacific Coast Railroad 1878-1887
...times mixed up reports about the tunnels by using the final numbers during construction. The following table numbers the tunnels as they were between 1880 and 1903 |Multiple deadly explosions during construction due to natural gas deposits.<ref>''Daily Alta California'' February 14, 187

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U.S. Gypsum Company
...ompany]] Surveying commenced in April 1921, grading on October 3, 1921 and construction was completed on September 15, 1922. Commercial operation commenced on Octo

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U.S. Navy: Supply Depot Pearl Harbor
...emporary until 1911 when the Navy Yard was sufficiently developed to begin construction of the first permanent rail system connecting the shops and repair faciliti ...ng a compressed air Porter locomotive and a few box and flat cars. In 1913 construction of a 200,000 ton coaling plant was started. The rail equipment of the coali

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Locomotives of the Ferries & Cliff House Railway
...s were assigned in the order built so that locomotives 1 and 2 have higher construction numbers than 3 thru 6. Then on August 3, 1888 locomotives 7 and 8 for the F ...ion occurs in the Construction Number Index<ref>''Baldwin Locomotive Works Construction Numbers Index for nos. 5000 to 9999, page 166'' DeGolyer Library, Southern

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Seattle Center Monorail
...s]], who received the bid when it offered to underwrite the entire cost of construction. ...on guests during the six months of the fair, easily paying for the cost of construction. The full initial capitol cost of the system was recovered and a profit was

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Dupont Powder Works Locomotive Roster
...lection/rwy/id/2454/rec/10 ''Baldwin Locomotive Works, Index of Companies, Construction Numbers from January 1907 to July 1910, Nos. 30000 to 34999'', page 173. De ...lection/rwy/id/2470/rec/12 ''Baldwin Locomotive Works, Index of Companies, Construction Numbers from June 1913 to January 1917, Nos. 40000 to 44999,'' pages 53, 86

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Tonopah Railroad
...nd one new locomotive, with cars from John Hammond’s California Car works. Construction started in early 1903. The railroad reached Tonopah on July 4 formal openin Apparently, prior to construction, the Tonopah Mining Company had received assurances from the Southern Pacif

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Ko'olau Railway
...uction stopped even though surveys were completed all the way to Honolulu. Construction never resumed, probably due to the extremely high cost to build along the w

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Baldwin Locomotive Works
...gital/collection/rwy/id/2239|Baldwin Locomotive Works, Index of Companies, Construction Numbers from 1 to 4999, January 1833 to April 1880.] ...gital/collection/rwy/id/2268|Baldwin Locomotive Works, Index of Companies, Construction Numbers from March 1880 to May 1889, Nos. 5000 to 9999.]

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Spanish Peak Lumber Company
<span class="paracap">W</span>'''ith''' a mill under construction near Spanish Creek a few miles west of Quincy, CA. the Spanish Creek Lumber ...920's it was decided to build a narrow gauge railroad for this job. During construction the trucks would haul the logs during the day and rail during the night. Th

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Dairy Farm Mining Company
...ve ore down to Sheridan. On July 25, 1914 a contract was let to the [[Utah Construction Company]] to build the line from Sheridan to Vantrent. ...of [[Southern Pacific]]’s Donner Pass mainline, near Newcastle. The first construction train reached Vantrent on November 29, 1914. The completed route was roughl

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Los Angeles Municipal Cement Mill
...unique (a plant was built by the U. S. Reclamation Services to support the construction of the Roosevelt Dam in Arizona) was quite controversial, and many of the c

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Sierra Lumber Company
...oldings and potentially, even further into Plumas county. In March of 1881 construction began from Lyonsville. Using the tramway roadbed, George Winans and crew co ...s former roadbed used for the extension of the flume. December of 1906 saw construction of the new mill at Soda Springs, just about a mile from Butte Meadows. Grad

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Yosemite Short Line Railroad
...emite National Park ahead of competing projects by minimizing the need for construction in difficult terrain. A subsequent upgrading would however have involved al Construction on the YSL started in the autumn of 1905. A third rail was laid down the Si

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