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Title: Carson and Colorado Railroad. First Crossing of California-Nevada State Line
Date Created and/or Issued: 2019-04-26T22:11:25Z
Contributing Institution: Loyola Marymount University, Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library
Collection: J. D. Black Papers
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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.
Type: image
Identifier: a0144b56-9e4f-435c-b391-f255626c4d91
https://digitalcollections.lmu.edu/documents/detail/9298
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Language: English
Subject: Railroads--California--Owens Valley--History
Railroads--Nevada--History
Narrow gauge railroads--California--Owens Valley
Narrow gauge railroads--Nevada
Locomotives
Source: Center for the Study of Los Angeles Research Collection, Loyola Marymount University
Relation: J. D. Black Papers, CSLA-15, Series 3: Photographs, Subseries A: Photographic Postcards, Box 5, Sleeve 26

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