- Title
- Carson and Colorado Railroad. First Crossing of California-Nevada State Line
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- Date
- 1883
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- 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.
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- Names
- Carson and Colorado Railroad
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- Format Extent
- 1 postcard : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm
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- Subject
- Railroads--California--Owens Valley--History; Railroads--Nevada--History; Narrow gauge railroads--California--Owens Valley; Narrow gauge railroads--Nevada; Locomotives
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- Note
- 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.
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- Collection
- J. D. Black Papers, CSLA-15, Series 3: Photographs, Subseries A: Photographic Postcards, Box 5, Sleeve 26
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- Type
- ["Photographs","Postcards"]
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- Language
- eng
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