By Mick Akers, Las Vegas Sun; April 14, 2018
With a few strikes of a pair of silver spikes on Friday Gov. Brian Sandoval and U.S. Sen. Dean Heller restored the Union Pacific rail line between Henderson and Boulder City for the first time in three decades.
The Railroad Pass Bridge part of the Boulder Branch Line, once a vital link to transport materials during the construction of Hoover Dam in the 1930s, saw its first train action since 1985 when Sandoval and Heller joined more than 100 others on its maiden voyage over the 363-foot bridge.
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