Forum/Other Views - Digging up the past - sacbee.com
Forum/Other Views - Digging up the past - sacbee.com
As development begins at the downtown railyard and Sacramento opens what one city official calls a “new chapter in our history,” city leaders and developers should be sensitive to the historical ties the Chinese community has with the area.
Much has been written about the 240-acre railyard: In its heyday it was the largest industrial center west of the Mississippi, a railcar production center that dumped chemicals and toxic metals into the ground, later creating a Superfund site. Rumors abound that locomotives there were buried whole.