Wellington, Railway Location, 195-97.
James Scott, Seeing like A State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1998), 25-33.
Railroad Gazetteer (Central Pacific Railroad), Nov. 1871, Graff 923. Newberry Library.
Cronon, Nature's Metropolis, 79.
Henry H. Swain, Comparative Statistics of Railroad Rates, Publications of the American Statistical Association, 6, no. 43 (Sept. 1898): 116.
Swain, Comparative Statistics of Railroad Rates, 115-32, quote 132.
A visualization created by Peter Shannon, "Seeing Space in Terms of Track Length and Cost of Shipping," illustrates how these freight rates distorted space at the Spatial History Project website, Stanford Univ.