Mountain Quarry Railroad photograph album

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2021

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]