Bucket Line Dredges

Historical marker location:

Trinity Center, California

( Marker is at the intersection of California Route 3 and East Side Road, on the left when traveling north on State Route 3.)

Marker installed: 2000

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.