C.M. Kurtz record of photograph exposures, and engineering notes, Southern Pacific Co. and Northwestern Pacific Railroad Co., [ca. 1905-1956].
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Northwestern Pacific Railroad Company
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The Northwestern Pacific Railroad runs between Marin and Humboldt Counties in California, much of it following the course of the South Fork of the Eel River. It was founded in the late nineteenth century as a joint venture of the Sante Fe and Southern Pacific Railroads. Portions of the railroad remain in operation in 2012. From the guide to the Northwestern Pacific Railroad Company records, 1908-1974, (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library) ...
Southern Pacific railroad company
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The Southern Pacific Railroad was founded in 1865 and was purchased in 1869 by Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins, better known as the Big Four. It was the first railroad to connect Los Angeles to the rest of California and its lines extended as far as New Orleans. In 1901, the Union Pacific Railroad bought 38% of Southern Pacific stock and took control of the company, but the Union Pacific was ultimately forced to divest these shares in 1912 by the U.S. Supreme...
Kurtz, C. M. (Charles Mears), 1874-
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This was one of the first units built in what is today's Cascade line to Portland. C.M. Kurtz was a commercial photographer from San Francisco. From the description of California Northeastern Railway (extension of the Southern Pacific into central Oregon from the south) : photographs, 1910 spring and summer. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122585439 ...
