By Joshua Emerson Smith, The San Diego Union-Tribune; January 15, 2018
In Jacumba Hot Springs, less than a mile from the U.S.-Mexico border, Robert Smith lives in an old stationmaster’s house that once serviced the so-called Impossible Railroad, stretching from Imperial County through perilous desert cliffs to the Pacific Coast.
Built by entrepreneur John D. Spreckels roughly a century ago, the 148-mile rail line still partially operates today, moving freight from the city of San Diego into Tijuana and as far east as Tecate.
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