Origins of the Oroville Dam

Origins of the Oroville Dam

By Angela Cotey | February 14, 2017

| Last updated on November 3, 2020


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OROVILLE, Calif. — Observers are watching for what will happen next with the Oroville Dam, one of the largest earthen dams in North America. Few know that the dam is also a great railroad story, one that was captured on video in the 1960s and in the pages of Trains in January 1966.

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A locomotive emerges from one of three loading facilities in central California.
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