Lakeview Summit

A Virginia and Truckee construction train on top of Lakeview Summit. Coach #8, pictured here, was one of the first coaches built for the railroad in 1869.

Date Uploaded: June 12, 2017

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Source Caption: A scene up on Lakeview Summit shows V&T maintenance-of-way cars which comprise a cook, dining bunk construction train around 1939. Behind the cars are the Lakeview Section foreman's house to the left and the section bunkhouse to the right. The caboose-coach was built in the VC car shops in 1869.

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