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Middlebrook Photographs of San Diego & Arizona Railway Locomotives

Owning Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives

About this Collection

Images of locomotives, trains, and sections of track from the San Diego & Arizona and San Diego & Arizona Eastern Railway companies, photographed by R. P. Middlebrook. SD&A was a short line railroad founded by John D. Spreckels in 1906, originating in San Diego and terminating in El Centro, California. It was built to connect San Diego to a transcontinental rail link to the east.

Middlebrook was a locomotive engineer for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. He photographed, wrote about, and collected materials related to locomotives and railroad history. Most of the images in this collection were scanned from original black and white nitrate negatives. View this collection on the contributor's website.
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50 items found in this collection

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2-Porter in 8th Street yard
Carrizo Gorge
Coyote Wells Station
Locomotive 26 Elks Special, with engineer Earl Youngs and fireman Ed Enright
Movie company in Carrizo Gorge with locomotives
Railroad track in Carrizo Gorge
Railway bridge over Highway 94, near Hipass Station, Tecate Divide
Railway trestle bypass bridge in Carrizo Gorge
Railway tunnel in Carrizo Gorge
Railway tunnel in Carrizo Gorge
Railway tunnel in Carrizo Gorge
Rockslide over railway tracks in Carrizo Gorge
Rockslide over railway tracks in Carrizo Gorge
Rockslide over railway tracks in Carrizo Gorge
SD&A locomotive 1 at 26th and Main Streets
SD&A locomotive 103 at roundhouse
SD&A locomotive 105 at roundhouse
SD&A locomotive 11 at 10th Street
SD&A locomotive 23 at 10th Street
SD&A locomotive 26, Salt Lake City
SD&A locomotive 50 at 10th Street
SD&A locomotive 50 in flooded Sweetwater River, San Diego County
SD&A locomotive 50 in flooded Sweetwater River, San Diego County
SD&A locomotive 50 National City troop train from Tijuana
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