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CPRR Weather Observations
From: 
"Joyce Strand" <jfstrand@ucdavis.edu>
Date: Jan 16, 2005, 9:18 PM
To: <museum@CPRR.org>
Subject: Question regarding weather observations
We've found evidence that the CPRR took weather observations at Sacramento (and
assume elsewhere). Do you have any information about their weather-gathering
activities, or can you direct me somewhere I might find information? We're looking
for the original data and circumstances around their collection.
Joyce Strand
Sacramento, CA
Railroad Spike Heads: lettering, types, lengths
From: "Keely Miers" <kmiers@grandecom.net>
Date: October 10, 2004 4:02:43 PM EDT
To: <museum@CPRR.org>
Subject: Question
... I was wanting to know what
the different letters, etc. on railroad spike heads mean.
What the different types of heads mean?
And what the different lengths mean?
Thanks
Train Stations - 1860's
From: "ted flerlage" <flerlage4@comcast.net>
Date: October 19, 2004 1:19:53 AM EDT
To: <museum@cprr.org>
Subject: Question
I had a question about life at train stations in the 1860s. How expensive
was a usual stay at an 1860 train station? How was the dining in an 1860
train station? Was life hard at a train station? Thank you.