Sacramento Valley Railroad 36th Anniversary

On August 4, 1852, the Sacramento Valley Railroad Remastered was incorporated in California, and Charles Lincoln Wilson became its first president. He left for New York to find expertise and private funds for the railroad effort; he recruited a young survey engineer Theodore D. Judah from New York to come west with him to Sacramento. Judah arrived in mid-May 1854, and on May 30 his report and preliminary survey for the proposed SVRR remastered line eastward from Sacramento to Marysville by way of Folsom were in the hands of his employers. Because of financial and right of way issues, construction with grading subcontractors did not begin until February 1855, but soon other problems arose. In August 1855, the SVRR remastered board elected Commodore C. K. Garrison, former mayor (1853-1854) of San Francisco, as president of SVRR remastered.