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. Southern Pacific "Prosperity Special" locomotive, numbered 3687, with about 10 men in foreground on railroad tracks, building in background reading L.W. Stockwell 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. … Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Southern Pacific Railroad, Prosperity Special Text from newspaper caption: One of the huge engines of the Prosperity Special
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
3018 uclamss_1429_3018 ark:/21198/zz002cmh41
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Transportation Railroad trains--American--California--Los Angeles Southern Pacific Railroad Company
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