Pass (front and back) valid for travel in 1919 issued by the Sacramento Northern Railroad to E. B. Allison, supervisor of motor cars for the United States Railroad Administration.
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Railroads, 1910-1919
View is looking south and may date from the 1910s when much of the swamp area within the Shops complex was filled in with sand dredged from the Sacramento River.
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Railroads, 1910-1919
View looking southeast along Sacramento River. Southern Pacific rail cars line track along the river.
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View looking north towards the M Street bridge, constructed in 1911. It was later replaced by the Tower Bridge (opened 1935).
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Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Maritime, 1910-1919
Photograph is dated March 14, 1911.
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Structures, 1910-1919
Exterior side view of Southern Pacific wood baggage and express car 6284. Photograph is stamped on back: AC&F [American Car and Foundry] Mechanical Department, Jeffersonville, Indiana, October 13, 1911.
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Railroads, 1910-1919
Article ("Company's Part in Development of the West" - p. 1, 2) from the October 1, 1915 issue of the Southern Pacific Bulletin.
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View looking west across the Sacramento River, showing construction of new bridge.
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Structures, 1910-1919
Southern Pacific Railroad business car No. 124 "Stockton" at Sacramento Shops. Wood coach No. 1329 was completed by the Pullman Company in October of 1895. In 1911 it was rebuilt as a business car at the Sacramento Shops, numbered Southern Pacific No. 124 and named "Stockton." This image probably dates between 1911 and 1925 when the car was renamed "Sacramento."
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Railroads, 1910-1919
Southern Pacific Railroad steam locomotive on display in the Transportation Building at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. SP also had its own building on the fairgrounds where it showcased its accomplishments.
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Railroads, 1910-1919
Exterior view, looking east down Fifth Street, of Southern Pacific Railroad freight station at Chico. Southern Pacific photograph P 310.
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Railroads, 1910-1919
The SP hospital, erected in the early 1870s, was located at the corner of 8th and F Streets. It was the first hospital built for the exclusive use of railroad employees. Postcard number is 5648 and bears a postmark of 1910.
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Buildings, 1910-1919
Lunch wagon outside Central Pacific Railroad passenger station (completed 1879).
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Railroads, 1910-1919
Southern Pacific's McKeen motor car No. 9 was completed in 1908 and retired in 1920. Postcard number is 2718.
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Railroads, 1910-1919
Southern Pacific Railroad McKeen motor car No. 9 (completed in 1908 and retired in 1920) in operation along the Sacramento Valley lines. Postcard number is 2717. Postmark is 1912.
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Railroads, 1910-1919
Exterior view (looking northwest)of Southern Pacific Railroad passenger station at Chico. This station was built in the winter of 1891-1892. Southern Pacific photograph P 305.
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Railroads, 1910-1919
Exterior view (lookig northeast) of Southern Pacific Railroad passenger station at Chico. This station was built in the winter of 1891-1892.
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"Changing cars at Davis, Cal." Printed in France. Postmark is 191-.
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Railroads, 1910-1919
Exterior view of Southern Pacific Railroad passenger station at Davis.
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Exterior view of Southern Pacific Railroad passenger station at Folsom. This building is a SP standard two-story combination depot No. 22 built between 1899 and 1910.
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Railroads, 1910-1919
Exterior view of Southern Pacific Railroad passenger station at Folsom. This building is a SP standard two-story combination depot No. 22 built between 1899 and 1910.
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Railroads, 1910-1919
View of the Southern Pacific Depot at Marysville. The card bears a 1914 postmark. The postcard number is 575. The verso of the postcard reads "On the road of a thousand wonders."
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Railroads, 1910-1919
Exterior view of Southern Pacific Railroad two story combination passenger station standard No. 22 at Walnut Grove. Back of print is marked: Built per contract with W. L. Graff, dated April 15, 1912. Contract price...$6,500.
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Railroads, 1910-1919
Exterior view of Southern Pacific Railroad colonnade-style passenger station at Woodland, completed between 1902 and 1913.
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Railroads, 1910-1919
Selected schedules from the January 1910 Southern Pacific's Valleys and Coast Line local and suburban timetable isssued December 15, 1909 in a run of 40,000 copies. Also includes a map of the lines in California.
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Railroads, 1910-1919
North end of Blacksmith Shop. This photograph may date from around 1917 when the building was remodeled. Blacksmithing involved a number of tasks, ranging from making rough slab wrought iron to producing nearly complete components such as car axles, track spikes, couplers and brake elements.
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Railroads, 1910-1919
Southern Pacific steam locomotives Nos. 1, C. P. Huntington, and No. 2839 posed in front of the north side of the Office Building. Bay 25, at the southwest corner of the Machine Shops, is to left. The Machine Shop bays were numbered north to south. The C. P. Huntington is now on display at the California State Railroad Museum. Class C steam locomotive No. 2839 was built at the Sacramento Shops and placed into service on August 31, 1917. It was scrapped in Sacramento on December 19, 1952.
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Railroads, 1910-1919
Fire hose cart No. 7 at the Sacramento Shops.
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Fire hose cart at the Sacramento Shops.
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Railroads, 1910-1919
View is looking east across Sacramento River towards the Central Pacific Railroad passenger station (completed in 1879). McKeen motor cars are visible in shed to right rear. Southern Pacific steam locomotive No. 1, C. P. Huntington, is on display in grassy area to right of palm trees. This locomotive is now on display at the California State Railroad Museum. City streetcars ended their runs at right, allowing for convenient connections.
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Railroads, 1910-1919
View looking north down alley between Machine Shop to left and Planing Mill, Powerhouse and Blacksmith Shop to right. Southeast end of Roundhouse is visible at end.
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View looking north at end of alley between Machine Shop to left and west side of Planing Mill to right. Southeast corner of Roundhouse is at center.
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Railroads, 1910-1919
View looking north down alley between Machine Shop to left and Blacksmith Shop to right. Southeast end of Roundhouse is visible at end of alley.
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Railroads, 1910-1919
View looking north down alley between Machine Shop to left and Blacksmith Shop to right. Planing Mill (situated east to west) is at right rear. Small sheds along sides of buildings are outhouses. Steam exhaust mufflers from steam hammers jut out from Blacksmith Shop.
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Railroads, 1910-1919
View along First Street, looking north towards I Street bridge (completed 1911). Team track is visible in the middle where a pillar crane is mounted.
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Railroads, 1910-1919
View is looking west from Car Shop 9. Visible are the pipes used to carry sand from the Sacramento River to fill in the slough. A row of McKeen motor cars occupy the center.
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Railroads, 1910-1919
Apprentices setting valves under direction of instructor, Sacramento Shops.
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Railroads, 1910-1919
Southern Pacific Railroad steam locomotive No. 1 "C. P. Huntington" on its way to San Francisco for display at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (February 20 - December 4, 1915) in San Francisco. The locomotive is secured to SP flat car No. 40971 (Class F-50-4) on board car float No. 1.
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Railroads, 1910-1919
Southern Pacific steam locomotive No. 1248, Class S-12, built at Sacramento, and outshopped September 25, 1919. This photograph was probably taken upon its completion.
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Railroads, 1910-1919
Southern Pacific Railroad steam locomotive No. 1, C.P. Huntington, inside the Machine Shop (later called the Erecting Shop).
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Railroads, 1910-1919
Southern Pacific steam locomotives No. 1, C. P. Huntington, and No. 2839 posed beside Bay 25 at the southwest corner of the Machine Shop. SP No. 2839 was built at the Sacramento Shops and placed into service August 31, 1917. No. 2839 was the first new locomotive constructed in the SP Shops in the twentieth century.
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Railroads, 1910-1919
Front and back of a travel pass issued to SP conductor L. L. Aske, valid for travel within Southern Pacific's Sacramento Division during 1911.
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Railroads, 1910-1919
Poster advertising Southern Pacific Railroad's Netherlands Route. The artist is Randal William Borough. 3000 copies of this poster (SP No. A 58) were issued September 12, 1911.
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Railroads, 1910-1919
Pamphlet covering everything you ever wanted to know about raising chickens in California.
Topics: californialightandsound, californiapreservationservice, Animals, 1910-1919
