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Title: California State Railroad Museum
Date Created and/or Issued: 1990
Contributing Institution: Sacramento Public Library
Collection: Sacramento Room Postcards
Rights Information: This image may be protected by Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.). Copyright restrictions applying to the reproduction and use of this image are available from the Sacramento Public Library.
Description: Displayed prominently in several silent films and at the California State Fair for years, is the vintage 1863 engine C. P. Huntington. A descriptive note on the back reads “The C. P. Huntington became Southern Pacific’s Locomotive #1 in 1871, and is an unusual ‘bicycle-type’ engine.”
Type: image
Identifier: BBSAC621
http://sacroom.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15248coll2/id/1397
Subject: California State Parks
Exhibits
Museums and Galleries
Railroad Locomotives
Railroad, Central Pacific
Railroad, Southern Pacific

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