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Collection: Books and Periodicals > Nevada County Historical Society Bulletins

Volume 076-4 - October 2022 (6 pages)

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NCHS Bulletin October 2022 locomotive “Jupiter” is on the left, and Union Pacific No. 119 on the right. The only two members of the Central Pacific board of directors to attend the ceremony were Leland Stanford and Charles Marsh. Courtesy of Wikipedia Commons. operating various ditches/canals bringing water to mines and towns. As owner of the Nevada Water Works, he built a water pipe system to serve Nevada City.@érs 9) Planning and Building the First Transcontinental Railroad In the fall of 1860, Marsh, surveyor, civil engineer and water company owner, met with Theodore Judah, civil engineer, who had recently built the Sacramento Valley Railroad from Sacramento to Folsom, California. Marsh, who had already surveyed a potential railroad route between Sacramento and Nevada City, California, a decade earlier, went with Judah into the Sierra Nevada Mountains. There they examined the Henness Pass Turnpike Company’s route (Marsh was a founding director of that company). They measured elevations and distances, and discussed the possibility of a transcontinental railroad. Both were convinced that it could be done. &ndnetes 23-30) In December 1860 or early January 1861, Marsh met with Theodore Judah and Dr. Daniel Strong in Strong’s drug store in Dutch Flat, California, to discuss the The Directors of the Central Pacific Railroad “Directors.” Hon. Leland Stanford Charles Crocker Mark Hopkins E. H. Miller Jr. C. P. Huntington E. B. Crocker A. P. Stanford Charles Marsh Gold Spike at the California State Railroad Museum, Sacramento, California. The museum also has a wall-sized painting of the Gold Spike ceremony which includes images of Charles Marsh and Leland Stanford. Courtesy of the author.