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Title
Ruby Jubilee
Contributor
Nopel, John
Date Created and/or Issued
1949
Publication Information
Meriam Library. California State University, Chico
Contributing Institution
California State University, Chico
Collection
John Nopel Photograph Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Spanish Creek at the Feather River Canyon. Leonardo Tomasso the track foreman who pounded in the 'Last Spike' on November 1, 1909 at the end of the Feather River Canyon rail construction project returned 40 years later to pound in a 'Ruby Spike' in this celibration of the Western Pacific Railroad Company.
Type
image
Format
Silver gelatin
Identifier
sc51956
http://archives.csuchico.edu/cdm/ref/collection/coll10/id/1456
Subject
Western Pacific Railroad Company
Railroad engineering
Railroad bridges
Railroad locomotives
Place
Feather Falls (Calif.)
Source
sc51956.tif
Relation
Hard Drive
2012-044
Original not owned
John Nopel Photograph Collection

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