Editing Theodore Judah (section)

==Legacy and honors==
[[File:Theodore Judah monument 3956.JPG|thumb|Theodore Judah monument (1930), northeast corner of 2nd and L Street in Old Sacramento, CA]]
Within days of Judah's death, the CPRR's first locomotive, ''[[Gov. Stanford]]'', made a trial run over the new railroad's first 500 feet of track in Sacramento, California.
*The CPRR named one of its [[steam locomotive]]s ([[T. D. Judah|CP No. 4]]) after him. Judah crossed paths with the 19-ton locomotive bearing his name while on his way to New York.
* [[Mount Judah]], an 8,243-foot peak in [[Placer County, California]], located adjacent to [[Donner Peak]] and [[Mount Lincoln (California)|Mount Lincoln]] in the Sierra Nevada [[Tahoe National Forest]], was formally named for Judah on October 18, 1940, by the [[United States Board on Geographic Names|U.S. Board on Geographic Names]].<ref>[http://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=136:3:0::NO:3:P3_FID,P3_TITLE:262032,Mount%20Judah "Feature Detail Report for Mount Judah, Placer County, CA  (ID #262032) bound on the west by Sugar Bowl basin, {{convert|1.1|km|mi|abbr=on}} south of Donner Peak and {{convert|1.6|km|mi|abbr=on}} northeast of Mount Lincoln. (US-T121)"] U.S. Board on Geographic Names, Washington, D.C.</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/feat_card?p_file=6681| title = U.S. Board on Geographic Names Decision Card, October 18, 1940}}</ref><ref>[http://onthesummit.net/wordpress/activities/trails/donnerjudah-peaks/ "OnTheSummit: Donner/Judah Peaks] OnTheSummit.net</ref> Running through the mountain about 1,000 below the summit is the 10,322-foot long single track [[Union Pacific Railroad|UPRR]] Sierra Grade [[Tunnel No. 41]] (aka "The Big Hole") which was opened in 1925 and carries both UPRR freight and [[Amtrak]] passenger trains in both directions over Donner Summit between Soda Springs and Eder. This route bypasses the original, now abandoned 1868 CPRR "Summit Tunnel" (No. 6) surveyed by Judah which is located a mile to the north and had remained in service until 1993.<ref>[https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ca2413/ "Central Pacific Transcontinental Railroad, Tunnel No. 41, Milepost 193.3, Donner, Placer County, CA] Library of Congress</ref>
* Judah Street in [[San Francisco]] and its [[N-Judah]] [[SFMTA|Muni]] [[streetcar]] line are named after him.
* Memorial plaques dedicated to him have been erected in [[Folsom, California|Folsom]] and [[Sacramento, California|Sacramento]], California
* Elementary schools in Sacramento and Folsom are named after Judah.<ref>{{cite web |title=Theodore Judah Elementary School - Welcome |url=https://www.theodorejudahelementary.org/ |access-date=2 September 2022 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fcusd.org/Page/39/ |title=Theodore Judah Elementary / Homepage |access-date=2016-10-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161130014255/http://fcusd.org/Page/39 |archive-date=2016-11-30 }}</ref>

"''In purely engineering retrospect, Judah’s achievements would seem nothing short of providential, especially in comparison to modern route surveying efforts. With a minimal survey crew utilizing crude instruments and only draft animals for transportation, Judah was able to lay out a remarkably accurate alignment across the most difficult natural obstacles undertaken up until that time (1861).''"  J. David Rogers and Charles R. Spinks, ASCE Golden Spike 150th Anniversary History Symposium, Sacramento, CA, May 6, 2019<ref name="RogersSpinks2019" />