Railroad photograph collection | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary: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