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. About 12 cars of the Southern Pacific "Prosperity Special" train, traveling through fields, photographed from the top of one of the train cars, with man in foreground, bending forward away from camera, letters S.P. visible on car in foreground Related to 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. … Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Southern Pacific Railroad, Prosperity Special
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
3016 uclamss_1429_3016 ark:/21198/zz002cmh20
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Transportation Railroad trains--American--California--Los Angeles Southern Pacific Railroad Company
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