Camino, Placerville and Lake Tahoe Railroad
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camino-placerville-and-lake-tahoe-railroad-169-18154389
title:
Camino, Placerville and Lake Tahoe Railroad
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The Camino, Placerville and Lake Tahoe Railroad was an 8-mile (13 km) Class III short-line railroad operating in the Sierra Nevada in California, east of Sacramento. It was built primarily to haul lumber from the El Dorado National Forest. The standard gauge line ran west 8.05 miles (12.96 km) from a sawmill at Camino to a connection with the Placerville Branch of the Southern Pacific Company at Placerville. Loaded cars of lumber descended a 3.5 percent grade from 3,150 feet (960 m) at Camino to
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camino,_Placerville_and_Lake_Tahoe_Railroad
date created:
2006-10-25T02:17:20Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T17:48:09Z
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