Camel Trail Terminus

Historical marker location:

Lebec, California

( Marker is on Fort Tejon Road west of Interstate 5.)

Marker installed: 1956

Fort Tejon.

The Transcontinental Railroad was completed in Promontory Summit, Utah in 1869, but the western terminus of the railroad was actually in Oakland, California. The railroad made it easier and faster to travel across the country, and helped to spur California's economic growth.