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.
Packet-switched describes the type of network in which relatively small units of data called packet s are routed through a network based on the destination address contained within each packet.Breaking communication down into packets allows the same data path to be shared among many users in the network.acket-switched describes the type of network in which relatively small units of data called packet s are routed through a network based on the destination address contained within each packet.