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Carson and Colorado Railroad. First Crossing of California-Nevada State Line
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Identifier
ov043
Title
Carson
and
Colorado
Railroad
.
First
Crossing
of
California-Nevada
State
Line
Creator
Unknown
;
Date Created
1883
Description
The
first
crossing
of the
California-Nevada
state
line
by a
train
of the
Carson
and
Colorado
Railroad
Company
(23
January
1883)
.
Passengers
and
crew
by
boundary
marker
and the
front
of the
locomotive
. The
location
of the
crossing
is
between
the
Montgomery
Pass
,
near
Mount
Montgomery
, in
Nevada
, and
Benton
,
California
.
Inscription
on
front
of
photograph
: "
FIRST
TRAIN
CROSSING
STATE
LINE
.
CARSON
COLORADO
R.R.
"
Title
supplied
by
cataloger
.
Historical Background
The
Carson
and
Colorado
Railroad
Company
was
incorporated
in
1880
; its
job
was to
service
the
mining
towns
of the
Sierra
Nevada
in
Nevada
and
California
. The
first
track
of this
narrow-gauge
railroad
was
laid
in
1880
, at
Mound
House
,
Nevada
,
near
Virginia
City
.
Reached
in
1883
, the
eventual
terminus
of the
C&C
was
Keeler
,
near
Owens
Lake
in the
Owens
Valley
. The
Southern
Pacific
bought
the
Carson
and
Colorado
Railroad
in
1900
. The
Southern
Pacific
continued
to
maintain
the
line's
operations
in the
Owens
Valley
,
despite
the
too
frequent
unprofitability
of this
activity
.
Type
image
;
Physical Description
1
postcard
:
b&w
;
9
x
14
cm
Institution
Center
for the
Study
of
Los
Angeles
Research
Collection
,
Loyola
Marymount
University
Collection Identifier
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt3w1022nb
Country of Creation
US
Copyright Status
Public
Domain
Copyright Statement
http://library.lmu.edu/generalinformation/departments/digitallibraryprogram/copyrightandreproductionpolicy/
Language
eng
;
Subject (Name)
Carson
and
Colorado
Railroad
;
Subject (Place)
Benton
(Calif.)
;
Mount
Montgomery
(Nev.)
;
Subject (Topic)
Railroads--California--Owens
Valley--History
;
Railroads--Nevada--History
;
Narrow
gauge
railroads--California--Owens
Valley
;
Narrow
gauge
railroads--Nevada
;
Locomotives
;
Form/Genre
Photographs
;
Postcards
;
Metacollection Identifier
http://digitalcollections.lmu.edu/
Item/Call Number
J
.
D
.
Black
Papers
,
CSLA-15
,
Series
3
:
Photographs
,
Subseries
A:
Photographic
Postcards
,
Box
5
,
Sleeve
26
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