Railroaded

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No. 7, Central Pacific Railroad, Special Freight Tariff on Grain in Carloads to the General Markets, Feb. 1, 1876. I am calculating a carload at 10 tons per car, which was the designated weight for a carload on the Central Pacific. Central Pacific Local Freight Tariff (Western & Oregon Divisions), Local Classification. River Rates to San Francisco, untitled document, State Railroad Commission, California State Archives, Sacramento. Albert Wilbur to George Wilbur, Nov. 17, 1881, box 13, f. 271, Wilbur Papers.

Magliari, Populism, Steamboats, and the Octopus, 461.