Railroad photograph collection, [picture] 1904-1972

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Railroad photograph collection, [picture] 1904-1972

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The Railroad photograph collection contains photographs of trains and train cars, several taken in New Mexico and Los Angeles, California. The images date back to 1904 and include several photographs and information cards about steam engines developed by Baldwin Locomotive Works. The collection also features photographs of many individual passenger cars. The majority of the collection relates to the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway. The collection includes one photograph of an Albuquerque streetcar manufactured by the Albuquerque Traction Company, several cars, locomotives and trains operated by the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway, a rotary plow car operated by the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railway, a Southern Pacific locomotive, and a Union Pacific passenger car. The majority of the photographs of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe cars and trains were photographed in New Mexico and Los Angeles, California. Also featured are the Super Chief and El Capitan passenger trains operated by the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway from the 1930s until 1971. Selected items from this collection are available on-line at the New Mexico's Digital Collections. Some photographs taken by George E. Votava.

.43 cu. ft. (1 box containing 116 items)

University of New Mexico-Main Campus

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SNAC Resource ID: 7274051

University of New Mexico-Main Campus

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Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company

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U.S. railroad, primarily in the Midwest and West; headquarters: Chicago, Ill. Name changed from Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad to Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway after bankruptcy reorganization in 1895. From the description of Santa Fé train robberies, 1890-1895. (Kansas State Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 228418621 The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company (AT&SF) was founded by Cyrus K. Holiday in Kansas in 1859. By 1888 the railroad s...

Baldwin Locomotive Works

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Matthias Baldwin (b. 1795), a former jeweler and tool manufacturer, was commissioned in 1831 by Franklin Peale to fashion a miniature locomotive engine to be displayed at his Philadelphia Museum. Soon the Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad asked Baldwin to construct "Old Ironsides," his first full-size engine, in 1832. Subsequently, M.W. Baldwin, incorporated in 1831, became an establishment for the manufacture of locomotive engines at 400 North Broad Street in Philadelphia. The po...

Southern Pacific railroad company

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Albuquerque Traction Company.

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Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company

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Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company was formed in 1920 to take over the property of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company. From the description of Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company records, 1865-1991 [manuscript]. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 465264688 ...

Union Pacific railroad company

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Served Oklahoma and other Western states. From the description of Union Pacific collection, 1930-1932. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70972329 The story of the Union Pacific Railroad's involvement with oil and the Tidelands goes back to at least 1911 when the State of California granted the City of Long Beach its tidelands properties for development of commerce, navigation, fisheries, and recreation under a public trust doctine, meaning any development and revenues from such...

Votava, George E., 1914-1999.

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