Western Pacific The Last Transcontinental Railroad
Western Pacific
The Last Transcontinental Railroad
By David F. Myrick.
Cloth with dust jacket, 8.5x11, 232 pages, over 200 photos including charts. 2006.
Colorado Rail Annual No. 27
"Well-written, carefully researched book by an eminent railroad historian gives a detailed account of the conception and building of the Western Pacific, which was in effect the Pacific extension of the Denver & Rio Grande. Coverage includes the northern California extension and Great Northern's 1931 entrance into the Golden State. Operations are described right up to merger with the Union Pacific."
