Hetch Hetchy and its dam railroad
the story of the uniquely equipped railroad that serviced the camps, dams, tunnels, and penstocks of the 20-year construction project to bring water from the Sierra to San Francisco
by Ted Wurm
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Table of Contents
1. San Francisco's early water supply
2. The 12 year fight
3. Tuolumne County background
4. Starting the big job
5. Building Hetch Hetchy Railroad
6. We have a Railroad
7. Preliminary construction
8. The big dam at Hetch Hetchy
9. A mountain tunnel gets started
10. Mountain Division Tunnel completed
11. Life in boomtown Groveland
12. Groveland swings
13. Rail lines all over the place
14. Gasoline Alley
15. Steam train operation
16. Excursions, wrecks, and worms
17. Priest, Moccasin, and Disaster
18. Westward by tunnel and pipeline
19. Longest tunnel in the World
20. Plentiful water at last
21. Hetch Hetchy Railroad lives on
22. Sierra Railroad helps to raise the dam
23. End of the line heralds a New Era
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Bibliography: p. 287-289.
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