The time on the railroads I'd love to go back and see wouldn't look like much from a model perspective - just a bunch of rock but if I could go there
Summit Tunnel ..."at one in the morning on May 3, 1867, a great, noisy crumbling took place at the east facing, and light from torches in the west could be seen flickering through the dust. No longer silent, the men from Shanghai, Canton, and Macao, and their American bosses, almost stunned, rent the icy caverns with a new din: a wave of bellowing cheers. The Summit had been pierced. The Sierras had been bested. There was awesome work yet to be done, months of wearing toil before the first track could be laid within the tunnel, but in that one ecstatic moment in 1867, the “Pacific Railroad” had become a reality. American would be bound, east to west, by iron. "
- From A Great and Shining Road - Williams
