A Native American looks down upon a newly completed section of the Transcontinental Railroad, 435 miles from Sacramento, California – photo by Alfred A. Hart, 1867 [1600×1532]
[Sepia tone photo of a Native American man standing on a ledge overlooking a railroad track cutting through dusty hills and plateaus. A river flows beside the tracks.]
railroads followed ‘water grades’ – terrain features flattened by nature so to not be too steep or to require the least blasting tunnels through obstacles.
![A Native American looks down upon a newly completed section of the Transcontinental Railroad, 435 miles from Sacramento, California - photo by Alfred A. Hart, 1867 [1600x1532]](https://i.redd.it/ksnrx4a67qb61.jpg)
JustAGlibGlob
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[Sepia tone photo of a Native American man standing on a ledge overlooking a railroad track cutting through dusty hills and plateaus. A river flows beside the tracks.]
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railroads followed ‘water grades’ – terrain features flattened by nature so to not be too steep or to require the least blasting tunnels through obstacles.