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Central Pacific Railroad

A city on the San Joaquin River? How Fresno won out over Sycamore

Joe Moore

A last-minute visit by Leland Stanford led to a change that gave us Fresno, and doomed the planned town of Sycamore.
Goshen Junction: Where the Central Pacific met the Southern Pacific

Joe Moore

The Tulare County town of Goshen played an important part in California railroad history.
How the railroad came to the San Joaquin Valley in the 1870s

Joe Moore

The Central Pacific and Southern Pacific connected the San Joaquin Valley with the world in the 1870s, founding many local cities and bypassing others.