Stockton and Copperopolis and Stockton and Visalia Railroad station plans, 1873-1891

Summary

Abstract:

Bound volume of hand-drawn pen and ink and pencil station plans for the Stockton and Copperopolis, and Stockton and Visalia Railroads.

Extent:

.17 Linear Feet 1 half-box

Language:

English .

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Stockton and Copperopolis and Stockton and Visalia Railroad Station Plans, MS 25, California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives, Sacramento, California.

Background

Scope and content:

Bound volume (32 pages with miscellaneous papers laid in) of hand-drawn pen and ink and pencil station plans for the Stockton and Copperopolis, and Stockton and Visalia Railroads. Some notations and statistical data is also included. Cover stamped "W[illiam]. G. Curtis" who was a Southern Pacific Assistant General Manager and engineer, and superintendent of the Stockton and Copperopolis Railroad. The original maps are dated 1873 and 1874; notations date to 1891.

Biographical / historical:

The Stockton and Copperopolis Rail Road, 25.80 miles from Stockton to Milton, California, was incorporated October 11, 1865, as an independent company, with construction occurring between 1866 and 1871. The railroad operated on its own from about February 22, 1871, when the first section of the line was opened, until December 30, 1874. At that time the railroad was leased to the Central Pacific until consolidated with the Stockton and Visalia Rail Road (November 17, 1877) to form the Stockton and Copperopolis Railroad.

The Stockton and Visalia Railroad, 18.90 miles from Peters to Oakdale, California, incorporated as an independent company on December 16, 1869, with construction occurring between June and September 1871. The railroad operated on its own until December 30, 1874, as a branch of the Stockton and Copperopolis Rail Road, the former company owning both lines. The line was leased to Central Pacific from December 30, 1874, until consolidated November 17, 1877, with the Stockton and Copperopolis Rail Road to form the Stockton and Copperopolis Railroad.

The Stockton and Copperopolis Railroad was operated under lease by the Central Pacific Railroad from date of incorporation until April 1, 1885, and from that date until May 14, 1888 by the Southern Pacific Company when, along with sixteen other companies, it was consolidated with the Southern Pacific Railroad.

[Guy Dunscomb, A CENTURY OF SOUTHERN PACIFIC STEAM LOCOMOTIVES, 1862-1962 (Modesto, California: 1967), p. 418-419].

Acquisition information:

Gift of Lynn Farrar, 1988

Physical location:

Statewide Museum Collections Center

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Short line railroads

Places:

Stockton and Visalia Railroads

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research by appointment. Contact Library Staff

Terms of access:

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 Library & Archives. 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:

[Identification of item], Stockton and Copperopolis and Stockton and Visalia Railroad Station Plans, MS 25, California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives, Sacramento, California.

Location of this collection:

California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives

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Sacramento, CA 95814, US

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