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NO. 780-5 FIRST TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD-COLFAX - Central Pacific rails reached Illinois-town on September 1, 1865, and train service began four days later. Renamed by Governor Stanford in honor of Schuyler Colfax, Speaker of the House of Representatives and later Ulysses S. Grant's Vice President, the town was for ten months a vital construction supply depot and junction point for stage lines. The real assault on the Sierra began here.

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Grass Valley Street and Railroad Tracks in Railroad Park, Colfax
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CHL #780.5 First Transcontinental Railroad-Colfax

CHL #780.5 First Transcontinental Railroad-Colfax

CHL #780.5 First Transcontinental Railroad-Colfax State Marker