US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. This photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, July 1, 1922, Thousands See Giant Engines, “Prosperity Special” Reaches Los Angeles, Leviathans of Rail Brought by Southern Pacific, Will be Used to Haul Trains Over Mountains, Monsters of Rail Here to Serve. Cheered by thousands lining the tracks in Southern California towns as it madeits way into Los Angeles, the Southern Pacific Prosperity Special of twenty new Leviathans of the rails reached the city last night and was parked in the Figueroa-street switch at Exposition Park. … R.E. Kelly, in suit and tie, shaking hands with W.H. Whalen, in light shirt, tie, and suspenders, with A.M. Merton, in tie and suspenders, hand in pocket, looking on, all holding hats, with railroad train in background Text from newspaper caption: R.E. Kelly, A.M. Merton, district road foreman of engineers, and W.H. Whalen, superintendent of the Los Angeles Division of the Southern Pacific. Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Southern Pacific Railroad, Prosperity Special
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
3015 uclamss_1429_3015 ark:/21198/zz002cmh1g
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Arrivals & departures--American--California--Los Angeles People Transportation Railroad trains--American--California--Los Angeles Whalen, William H., b. ca. 1859 Southern Pacific Railroad Company Kelly, Richard E., b. 1877 or 8 Merton, Alexander M., b. 1879 or 80
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