Guide to the William Ripley Dorr California railroad clubs : photograph albums, 1948-1960
Guide to the William Ripley Dorr California railroad clubs : photograph albums, 1948-1960
Collection number: Mss Photo 416
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"Apache Railway Holiday," Santa Fe Special. June 26-July 2, 1948. Railway Club of Southern California. Open observation car, steam engine on logging railway, detector car, Santa Fe steam and diesel engines. Wreck of Santa Fe Super Chief, at Winslow, Arizona, June 29, 1948. Lumber mill, McNary, Arizona. Canyon Diablo, Wickenburg, and Parker, Arizona. 1948
"Railroad Boosters SP-Ojai Excursion," August 15, 1948. Cab-forward Mallet engine, tunnel at Hassan, California, camera car. 1948
"Feather River Holiday," September 4-6, 1948. Santa Fe and Western Pacific. Double-header, diesel engine, vista dome car, wrecker car & crane (maintains steam up at all times), rotary snow plow, closed observation car. 1948
"Sierra Railroad Holiday," May 28-30, 1949. Steam engine, camera car, Shay logging engine, West Side Lumber Company, Tuolumne, California. Jamestown, California. Round house, Columbia, California. Shaw's Flat and Sonora, California. 1949
"1949 Holiday." Small New England stations, various cars. Trolley plow, postal car, Chicago Railroad Fair (1949). Unique engines: Spain's Talgo diesel engine and observation car, and Pennsylvania Railroad's electric-powered train. 1949
"Vagabond Holiday," Railway Club of Southern California, Excursion No. 24, March 5, 1950. Winslow, Arizona. Round house, Alamosa, Colorado. Ticket envelope, Denver & Rio Grande Railroad (parlor car ticket), "only narrow gauge luxury train in United States." New York Central Railroad advertisement with notice on back of discontinuance of Rio Grande Railroad narrow gauge passenger service in New Mexico, on January 31, 1951. 1950
"Virgina & Truckee Railway Excursion," March 18-19, 1950. Ticket, Carson City, Nevada. Station, round house, water tower, motor car, switching yard, G. A. Sampson, Vice President and General Manager. Minden, Nevada, caboose, early steam engine, Lake Tahoe, California. Post-card of Virginia and Truckee engine, "Old 24." 1950
Southern Pacific Narrow Gauge ( part of Carson and Colorado Railroad). Tracks, stations, yards, engines, cars. [1950?]
Miscellaneous steam engines.1948-1950
"Southern Pacific Holiday of 1950," Excursion No. 25, April 16, 1950. Railroad shops and round house, Los Angeles, California. Steam engines. 1950
"Clover Valley Express," California Nevada Railroad Historical Society, May 12-14, 1950.
Stock Certificate, Lehigh Valley Railraod Company (fifty shares, in the name of Edward Henderson), June 1901.
Santa Maria Valley Railroad [California]. Round house, caboose, steam engine Mikado. n.d.
"Railfan Excursion to Fort Bragg, California," Pacific Coast Chapter, Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, Inc., August 20, 1950. California Western Railroad, "Skunk." 1950
Southern Pacific Narrow Gauge, Keeler Yards and caboose. n.d
Santa Fe Corona-Elsinore mixed train. Last trip under steam power,May 26, 1951. Engine Mikado at Elsinore. Loading industrial cargo.1951
Trip to Alaska. July 1951. Shasta Daylight (Southern Pacific) at Dunsmuir, California. Pacific Great Eastern Train No.1 at Squamish, British Columbia. Assorted engines and cars, White Pass and Yukon Railroad general offices and passenger station, Skagway, Alaska. Railroad shops, parlor and baggage cars, Sumpter Valley coach No. 26. Steamer Tutshi. The Duchess (Baldwin 0-6-0) steam engine (1878). Royal Mail stage coach, White Horse to Dawson City (1902) at Carcross.1951
La Canada Valley Railroad. Flintridge, California. n.d.
Excursion, Bay Area Electric Rail-Road Association, Pacific Electric Railway, August 25, 1951. Parlor car (electrified). USA stamp 3 cts, commemorating 125 years of rail transport, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. 1951
Excursion, Bay Area Electric Railroad Association Pacific Electric Railway, December 1, 1951. Narrow gauge cars from Denver & Rio Grande San Juan. Parlor car Chama, parlor car Durango, coach Lockwood (interior and exterior), Day car Edna. 1951
"Owens Valley [California] Holiday," Railway Club of Southern California. Excursion 43, May 31, 1951. Assorted steam engines, some narrow gauge. 1951
Santa Maria Valley [California] Railroad. Switch and long-haul engines.n.d.
Santa Fe San Diegan, San Diego station (Santa Fe). n.d.
The San Juan at Knott's Berry Farm, 1953. Rio Grande Southern cars Edna and Royal Gorge, assorted engines. 1953
Southern Pacific. Taylor Hump Yard, 1954. Wrecker and icing machine cars, street railway funeral car, miscellaneous engines. 1954
Union Pacific City of St. Louis at Hermosa Beach, California, October 10, 1953. Santa Fe El Capitan at Summit, California. 1953
Travel Town, miscellaneous cars and steam engines [Arizona]. n.d
Flagstaff Yards [Arizona]. Miscellaneous cars and steam engines. n.d.
Los Angeles County Fair. Steam engines. "Galloping Goose." Rio Grande Southern Railroad. n.d.
Last steam run on Southern Pacific narrow gauge. Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, Inc., October 16, 1954. Engine "Little Giant" at Travel Town. 1954
Engines at Travel Town. Carl W. Headrick. n.d.
"Gold Spike Special," trip ticket. Southern Pacific Company and McLoud River Railroad, July 2-4, 1955. Ticket to Burney, California, rodeo and horse show. 1955
Nevada Northern Railroad. Steam engines and cars, April 1957.
Eight trip tickets: "Rail Fan Excursion," Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, Inc., May 4, 1958. Pacific Railroad Society, November 25, 1958. "Shasta Wonderland Tour," California Nevada Railroad Historical Society, May 22-24, 1959. "Steam Excursion," Glendale to Oxnard, California Railway and Historical Society, Inc., November 22, 1959. "Mexicali-Riito Trip," Railway Historical Society of San Diego, Inc., March 20, 1960. "Relive the Golden Ferry Boat Days," Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, Inc., October 1, 1960. "Sacramento River Cruise," (boat & rail trip), Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, Inc., May 11-12, 1963. 1958-1963