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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