Descriptive Summary
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Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
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Biography/Administrative History
Scope and Content of Collection
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: Amador Branch Railroad cash book
Dates: 1875-1877
Collection Number: MS 106
Creator/Collector:
Amador Branch Railroad
Extent: 1 half-box
Repository:
California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
Sacramento, California 95814
Abstract: One cash book generated by the Amador Branch Railroad.
Language of Material: English
Access
This collection is open for research at our off-site storage facility with one week's notice. Contact Library & Archives
staff to arrange for access.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the California State Railroad Museum. All requests for permission to publish or quote
from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the District Collections Manager. Permission for publication is given on
behalf of the CSRM as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright
holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
Preferred Citation
Amador Branch Railroad cash book. California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
Acquisition Information
Southern Pacific Railroad, New York Collection
Biography/Administrative History
The Amador Branch Railroad was incorporated July 3, 1875, 27.20 miles from Galt to Ione, California, opened December 3, 1876.
Operated by the Central Pacific Railroad from December 3, 1876 until April 1, 1885, and by the Southern Pacific Company until
May 15, 1888, the date of consolidation with other roads to form the Northern Railway. The Amador Branch had no locomotives
under its own name. The trackage is now known as the Ione Branch, connecting at Ione with the eight-mile Amador Central Railroad,
an independently owned common carrier. [Guy Dunscomb, A CENTURY OF SOUTHERN PACIFIC STEAM LOCOMOTIVES, 1862-1962 (Modesto,
California: 1967), p. 393]
Scope and Content of Collection
A single cash book contains only two pages with brief entries for the period July 24, 1875 to October 8, 1877.
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