Travel time NY-SF in 1879
posted from CPRR Discussion Group at 4:47 PM
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
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From: kylewyatt@aol.com
Read The Amateur Emigrant by Robert Louis Stevenson. It recounts his trip from New York/New Jersey to San Francisco and Monterey in 1879. He traveled by regular coach trains to Omaha, and then by emigrant trains on to California.
—Kyle
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