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Southern Pacific's Tucson Division photograph album
MS 822
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Title: Southern Pacific's Tucson Division photograph album
Dates: 1920-1923
Collection Number: MS 822
Creator/Collector:
Southern Pacific Company
Extent: 1 album
Repository:
California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
Sacramento, California 95814
Abstract: Most of the photos in this album are of the right-of-way along the Tucson Division in Arizona.
Language of Material: English
This collection is open for research
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.
Southern Pacific's Tucson Division photograph album. California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
Scope and Content of Collection
Most of the photos in this album are of the right-of-way along the Tucson Division in Arizona showing meticulous track and
ballast work. They depict the roadbed with slag ballast and white rock toe line. Subjects include: outfit cars along a siding
west of Tucson, crossing under the El Paso & Southwestern, the west end of the double track at Stockham, AZ, paving the 6th
Avenue crossing in Tucson in 1921, the Benson Bridge wash-out in 1922, Yuma and the Colorada River showing Junction City
and Prison Hill and the Stein River Quarry.
[Album 45]