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...epic of U. S. railroad building ended with a mild clink in 1931. In that year Arthur Curtiss James tamped a golden spike into a convenient tie near Bieber, Calif., formally completing 200 miles of new track connecting Great Northern R. R. with his Western Pacific. After that, paralysis descended on what had once bean the lustiest field of U. S. business pioneering. Total mileage of new track laid by all U. S. railroads plummeted from 748 in 1931 to 163 in 1932, collapsed to 24 miles in 1933. In 1934, 76 miles of new track were laid, last year...
...purple era of rail construction was paling before the War, but it did not end until 1931 when Arthur Curtiss James drove the golden spike near Bieber, Calif, in a 200-mi. link between his Western Pacific in California and Great Northern in Oregon (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931). Only new mileage now projected is a 28-mi. Great Northern spur to the site of the proposed Grand Coulee Dam in Washington, a 14-mi. line planned by U. S. Army engineers between Wiota and the Fort Peck dam in Montana...
...Northern Pacific. Awaiting it in the South was the $110,111,000 Western Pacific, pet road of Arthur Curtiss James. When by the first of next year the track-laying crews have finished their work, 200 miles of new rails will connect Klamath Falls and Bieber, Calif., will link the Northern transcontinental routes with Western Pacific. The track will feed new traffic to both systems, will also bring competition to Southern Pacific's land and sea routes. And it will bring a smile to the ghost of James Jerome Hill who, never satisfied with merely pushing to the Coast...