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Stereo Card: San Fernando Tunnel
Newhall, California

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Stereo card, c. 1880s, of the south side of the San Fernando train tunnel, linking the San Fernando and Santa Clarita Valleys.

Says: Watkins' New Series, Yosemite and Pacific Coast. 26 Montgomery Street, And Woodward's Garden, S.F. — South end of the San Fernando Tunnel, S.P.R.R.

A thousand Chinese rail workers spent the better part of a year — and an unknown number gave up their lives — digging the San Fernando Railroad Tunnel. At 6,940 feet, it was the third longest tunnel in the United States when it was completed in August 1876. The tunnel, along the Southern Pacific Railroad's San Joaquin Line, linked the San Fernando Valley (at the Newhall Pass) with the Santa Clarita Valley (in Railroad Canyon), facilitiating the conjoinder a month later of northern California with Southern California at Lang Station in present-day Canyon Country.

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LW2137b: 600 dpi jpeg from 75 dpi jpeg

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