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150 Years Later: The Story Of How Reno Came To Be
Category: Government & Organizations
Duration: 00:02:41
Publish Date: 2018-05-10 14:17:41
Description: May 9th was a big day for Reno. It marked the 150 th anniversary of the city’s founding back in 1868. Historian Alicia Barber gives us the scoop on how it all began in this episode of Time & Place . It’s entirely possible to stand in the heart of downtown Reno today and not even realize that a railroad runs straight through it. The tracks were lowered below ground in 2006. Until then, waiting at a crossing for a train to pass by was a Reno ritual dating back to the very beginning. There were no railroads in the entire state of Nevada until late 1867, when workers for the Central Pacific Railroad, most of them Chinese immigrants, finally finished the treacherous job of laying the tracks over the Sierra on their way east from Sacramento. At the same time, the Union Pacific Railroad was building the line westward from Omaha, Nebraska in a mad rush to meet somewhere in the middle and complete the country’s first transcontinental railroad. After their triumph over the mountains, the
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