The author gives particular thanks to Peter Palmquist and James Holliday for their continuous advice, suggestions, and enthusiastic support regarding photographic history, California history and the general layout of this book. Highway 80 now passes under the center of its modern steel replacement. See also Appendix A, No.145 for a view of this same trestle under construction. This mounted print, published by Whitney and Paradise from a Hart negative was probably taken in mid-1865. The first car in this view is an inspection/excursion type and the second is an early passenger car borrowed from the recentlypurchased Sacramento Valley Railroad. Hart: Central Pacific Trestle at Newcastle, 1865Ī rare example of Hart producing a single lens image of the Central Pacific Railroad, probably using his stereo camera modified for panoramic work as shown on the first frontispiece.
