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San Diego’s Goat Hill Trestle: American Ingenuity Still Standing

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San Diego’s Goat Hill Trestle: American Ingenuity Still Standing
A historic photograph of the Goat Canyon Trestle along the San Diego-Arizona Eastern Railway. Courtesy of San Diego Metropolitan Transit System
Lynn Hackman
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SAN DIEGO—Deep in the remote Jacumba Mountains of southeastern San Diego County, the once celebrated, hard-fought Desert Line section of the San Diego–Arizona Eastern Railway is slowly deteriorating into the landscape it once conquered.

The railway, made up of 148 miles of railroad tunnels, tracks, and trestles, once connected San Diego and Yuma, Arizona, through Mexico, and on to connections in the east.

Lynn Hackman
Lynn Hackman
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Lynn is a reporter for the Southern California edition of The Epoch Times, based in Orange County. She has enjoyed a 25-year career as a senior-level strategic public relations and contingency planning executive. An editor, blogger, and columnist, Lynn also has experience as a television and radio show producer and host. For six years, she was co-host of Sunday Brunch with Tom and Lynn on KOCI 101.5 FM. She is also active in the Newport Beach community, serving as chair emeritus of the Newport Beach City Arts Commission, among various positions with other local organizations.
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