Central Pacific Railroad's Bloomer Cut was ?
Central Pacific Railroad's Bloomer Cut was 800 feet long and had sixty-three foot high walls. It was excavated with dynamite in the late 1860s during the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. LC-DIG-st
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