Identifier: pacifictouristad1881shea (find matches)
Title: The Pacific tourist : Adams & Bishop's illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes across the continent, all pleasure resorts and places of most noted scenery in the Far West, also of all cities, towns, villages, U.S. forts, springs, lakes, mountains, routes of summer travel, best localities for hunting, fishing, sporting, and enjoyment, with all needful information for the pleasure traveler, miner, settler, or business man : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads, and all points of business or pleasure travel to California, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Montana, the mines and mining of the Territories, the lands of the Pacific Coast, the wonders of the Rocky Mountains, the scenery of the Sierra Nevadas, the Colorado Mountains, the big trees, the geysers, the Yosemite, and the Yellowstone
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Shearer, Frederick E Williams, Henry T
Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad Company
Publisher: New York : Adams & Bishop
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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f the shops is six box-freight,and six flat cars per day, and two passenger, andone sleeping car per month. Twelve years ago,the work of the company at this point, was alldone in a little wooden building 24 by 100 feet,and with less men than there are now build-ings or departments. Last year a million and a half dollars was paidout for labor in these shops alone, and 4,000 tonsof iron consumed. Some of the buildings, likethe roundhouse, are of brick. This has 29 pitseach 60 feet long, with a circumference of 600feet. Some of the buildings have roofs or sidesof corrugated iron. Seven large under-groundtanks, 1,600 gallons each, are used for oil and2,000 gallons of coal oil, and 400 of sperm con-sumed every month. In connection with the shops, is a regularlyorganized and well-equipped fire-brigade, and intwo miimtes the water of two steam fire-enginescan be dii-ected to any point in the buildings. Soon a rolling mill will be erected, and upona location but lately pestilential. The whole
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260 Wmm ^^€iFI€ WQ;WMiBW. coast ■will be laid under further tribute to theseshops for the facilities of travel and commerce. Just before entering the depot you wUl seethe Sacramento Kiver on the right. The announcement of Sacramento will beexceedingly welcome to every through pass-enger, for it will leave but little more journeyingto be accomplished. The trains stop for break-fast going west, and supper going east. Theprice of each meal is seventy-five cents, or ^^ sixbits\i\x\, no better meals are served betweenNew York and Omaha. Trains stop twenty-fiveminutes. The depot is the finest in California,excepting that at Oakland wharf, and is worthyof the road and State. It is four hundred andsixteen feet long and seventy wide, and hasanother adjoinuig, one hundred and sixty feetlong by thirty-five feet wide. It is largely ofiron and glass, and being open at the sides ispeculiarly adapted to the warm climate of theregion. At this point passengers have choice of fourroutes to San Fr

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