Amador Branch Railroad Cash Book, 1875-1877

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Title:: Amador Branch Railroad cash book
Dates:: 1875-1877
Abstract:: One cash book generated by the Amador Branch Railroad.
Extent:: .25 Linear Feet 1 half-box
Language:: English .
Preferred citation:: [Identification of item], Amador Branch Railroad Cash Book, MS 106, California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives, Sacramento, California.

Scope and content:: A single cash book contains only two pages with brief entries for the period July 24, 1875 to October 8, 1877.
Biographical / historical:: 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]
Acquisition information:: Southern Pacific Railroad, New York Collection
Physical location:: Statewide Museum Collections Center
Rules or conventions:: Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Collection Guide Author:: Library Archives staff
Date Encoded:: This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-09-12 22:18:15 +0000 .

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Preferred citation:: [Identification of item], Amador Branch Railroad Cash Book, MS 106, California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives, Sacramento, California.

Location of this collection:: California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives

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