Hetch Hetchy and its dam railroad

By Ted Wurm

Subjects: Water-supply engineering, Hetch Hetchy Railroad, Water-supply

Description: Table of Contents 1. San Francisco's early water supply 2. The 12 year fight 3. Tuolumne County background 4. Starting the big job 5. Building Hetch Hetchy Railroad 6. We have a Railroad 7. Preliminary construction 8. The big dam at Hetch Hetchy 9. A mountain tunnel gets started 10. Mountain Division Tunnel completed 11. Life in boomtown Groveland 12. Groveland swings 13. Rail lines all over the place 14. Gasoline Alley 15. Steam train operation 16. Excursions, wrecks, and worms 17. Priest, Moccasin, and Disaster 18. Westward by tunnel and pipeline 19. Longest tunnel in the World 20. Plentiful water at last 21. Hetch Hetchy Railroad lives on 22. Sierra Railroad helps to raise the dam 23. End of the line heralds a New Era