HOWARD HICKSON'S HISTORIES [Index] Elko: The First 100 Years Elko was the end of the tracks laid from the west by the Central Pacific Railroad in 1868. When CPRR tracklayers moved on east to meet construction crews of the Union Pacific Railroad at Promontory, Utah Territory, they left a small tent town on the banks of the Humboldt River.
By definition, reciprocal switching is âan interchange of inbound and outbound carload freight among railroads in which the cars are switched by one railroad to or from the siding of another under a regular switching charge that is usually absorbed by the carrier receiving the line-haul.â.
Definitions for ReciprocalrÉªËsÉªp rÉ kÉl. reciprocal(noun) something (a term or expression or concept) that has a reciprocal relation to something else. risk is the reciprocal of safety. multiplicative inverse, reciprocal(noun)