Historic Old Sacramento - Underground Tunnels - Road Trip Day 11 Episode 29
Old Sacramento is located within the Old Sacramento Historic District which is a U.S. National Historic Landmark District. The city of Sacramento was developed in the mid-nineteenth century as an extension of Sutter’s Fort as the Sacramento River was the main waterway to the west coast. We had a lot of fun walking and exploring the waterfront!
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Hope you enjoy it as much as we did. 
The whole operation was totally slick and sucked me in; I studies it from soup to nuts
As a kid, I remember seeing the mail hook in action in a Podunk town in the Sacramento valley. The postmaster retrieving the mailbag tossed from the train was anticlimactic. I only regret I never got to see the mailbag slam into the mail car at 50 MPH from the inside of the mail car.
In a museum there I saw an old linotype machine. It's very disturbing to see a piece of machinery that you used to run for a living in a museum.
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