Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Carson and Colorado Railway,
- Dates:
- 1887-1916
- Creators:
- Carson and Colorado Railway
- Language:
- English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Carson and Colorado Railway, MS 80, California State Railroad Museum Library, Sacramento, California.
Background
- Scope and content:
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This collection has been divided into three series: Train Registers, Forms, and Miscellaneous
- Biographical / historical:
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The Carson and Colorado Railway was incorporated February 27, 1892, and in July and August, 1892, it acquired: the Carson and Colorado Railroad Company, which operated 157.60 miles of main line from Mound House to Candelaria Nevada, the Carson and Colorado Railroad, Second Division, operating 33.50 miles from Filben over Mt. Montgomery Pass to the Nevada-California line, and the Carson and Colorado Railroad, Third Division, which operated 108 miles from the Nevada-California line to Keeler, California. On March 1, 1900, the Carson and Colorado Railway came under the control of the Southern Pacific Company and on May 11, 1905, it was sold to the Nevada and California Railway.
- Custodial history:
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Grahame H. Hardy Collection and Various Donors
- Physical location:
- Big Four Building or off-site storage. Please contact the Library in advance of your visit.
- Physical description:
- 2 boxes
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 2000
- Date Encoded:
- Machine-readable finding aid derived from WordPerfect.
Access and use
- Terms of access:
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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 Senior Curator. 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:
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[Identification of item], Carson and Colorado Railway, MS 80, California State Railroad Museum Library, Sacramento, California.
- Location of this collection:
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111 I StreetSacramento, CA 95814, US
- Contact:
- (916) 323-8073