Central Pacific Tunnel #8

Roy D. Graves Pictorial Collection

A worker standing in front of Tunnel #8 on the Central Pacific Railroad, at Donner Summit. The railroad is still under construction here.

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Date Uploaded: March 5, 2026

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Source: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Source URL: https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/209018

Source Caption: ["Heading (top cut) of East Portal, Tunnel No. 8." Unidentified Chinese man working on construction of the Central Pacific Railroad in the Sierra Nevada mountains, near Donner Lake.] [Copy photograph of Alfred. A. Hart's C.P.R.R. stereograph no. 204.]

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