When Lewis Kingman peered down into the wasteland abyss of Arizona’s Diablo Canyon, the topography was a world away from the sandy dunes of his native Massachusetts. On that day in 1880, the renowned civil engineer’s frustrated focus was measuring inches of rail rather than miles. The bridge span built off-site was too short to cross the vertical drop. Kingman now faced unplanned construction delays that would soon create the unintended consequence of a legendary railroad boomtown: Canyon
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