Alfred A. Hartwho took all the photographs illustrating this articleframed this view looking northward from the riverboat Capitol over the Central Pacific's Sacramento wharf. Various locomotive components can be identified, and indeed there may be entire "kits" here, recently delivered from the East. The schooner moored just upstream appears to be loaded with milled timbers; presumably rail was carried in a similar manner. (California State Railroad Museum)
[Similar to Hart Stereograph #1002 which also shows people on the boat.]

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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