Descriptive Summary
Access
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Acquisition Information
Biography/Administrative History
Scope and Content of Collection
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: Mountain Quarry Railroad photograph album
Dates: 1910-1912
Collection Number: MS 816
Creator/Collector:
Mountain Quarry Railroad
Extent: 1 album
Online items available
Repository:
California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
Sacramento, California 95814
Abstract: This album shows the construction of the Mountain Quarry Railroad from Flint [Auburn], California connection with the Southern
Pacific and the rock quarry and mine 7 miles.
Language of Material: English
Access
This collection is open for research
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 CSRM Librarian. 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
Mountain Quarry Railroad photograph album. California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
Acquisition Information
Gift of Louis Stein, 1986
Biography/Administrative History
Work on the railroad and limestone mine began in 1910 and it went into operation on March 23, 1912. The Mountain Quarries
Company spent a reported $1 million dollars on constructing the mine, putting up the crushing plant and the railroad line.
The MQRR was seven miles long and ran from the quarry crushing plant in El Dorado County on the Middle Fork American River
to Flint Station on the Southern Pacific main line in Auburn. There were 17 wooden trestles and one large concrete bridge
on the main line. The Mountain Quarries operated until July 1941.
Scope and Content of Collection
This album shows the construction of the Mountain Quarry Railroad from Flint [Auburn], California connection with the Southern
Pacific and the rock quarry and mine 7 miles. Of particular note are a number of very high quality pictures of the construction
of the concrete arch bridge just south of Auburn along Highway 49. This concrete arch bridge is known as "No Hands Bridge"
or "Mountain Quarries Bridge."
[Album 29]
