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Title: Santa Fe's Railway's newest diesel train completing a test run, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: September 13, 1935
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
This photograph appears with the article, “NEW SPEED ENGINE HERE: Santa Fe Tests Latest Marvel Rail Officials Pleased With Giant Diesel Locomotive’s Run From Chicago,” Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 1935: 6.
Handwritten on negative: Santa Fe desiel [sic] train, 9-13-35.
Text on negative sleeve: 2060-New Santa Fe Desiel [sic] Train, JA Burke, engineer, 9-13-35, [Stamped:] Sep 18 1935.
Newspaper caption: The latest in railroad power—the Santa Fe Railway’s Diesel-powered locomotive, the Super-Chief—pulled to a stop in the Los Angeles yard of the railroad yesterday after completing a test run from Chicago. Inside of its sleek sides are four Diesel motors with a combined horsepower rating of 3600. The return trip will be made in a few days, officials said.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_8474
ark:/21198/zz002dgc2p
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Railroad trains--American--California--Los Angeles
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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