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Description
This 1873 photograph shows the prime facilities of the Central Pacific Railroad shops. In the foreground is the 90 by 230-foot car building shop. To the left of it is the 60 by 125-foot blacksmith shop. Behind both is the cabinet shop, boasting its smoke stack, reaching 92 feet above the highest elevation of the shops and comprised of no less than 600,000 bricks. All three buildings sit above the previous location of the northern banks of China Slough and were completed and occupied by 1869. The scrap iron and coal in the direct foreground await transfer to the rolling mill which would have been located directly behind the photographer.
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