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Henry Huntington had the San Joaquin and Eastern Railroad built to provide access to the Big Creek Project

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Title: Henry Huntington had the San Joaquin and Eastern Railroad built to provide access to the Big Creek Project
Creator: Bishop, G. Haven, photographer
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Henry Huntington had the San Joaquin and Eastern Railroad built to provide access to the Big Creek Project. Primarily a freight-hauling line, the few passengers who endured the long jolting trip to the project nicknamed the railroad the "Slow, Jerky, and Expensive." Pg. 104.
Type: image
Format: 415137 Bytes
Extent: Copy negative ; 8x10
Identifier: 11 - 00209
232670
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll2/id/5705
Subject: Hydroelectric power-plants
Railroad freight cars
Railroad passenger cars
Railroad locomotives
Snow
Place: Big Creek (Calif.)
Fresno County (Calif.)
Source: Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives
Iron Men and Copper Wires
Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives, Huntington Digital Library

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