Seen here is the Central Pacific's Sacramento wharf, with schooners tied up after having transferred their cargo of rail and locomotive components such as tires. (The Barry A. Swackhamer Collection)

[Hart Stereograph #234.]

Illustration from the article:
Railroads Shipped by Sea
Railroad History, Bulletin 180, Spring, 1999. pp. 7-30.
By Wendell W. Huffman

Courtesy Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, William F. Howes, Jr., President.
 
 

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