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Photograph of survey camp, Caliente, Nevada, circa 1903-1904
Date
1903 to 1904
Description
Railroad survey camp on S. P., L. A., and S. L. line in southern Nevada between Caliente and Las Vegas.
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Photograph of SD45 locomotives with coal drags heading to California from Las Vegas, circa mid 1960s
Date
1965 to 1968
Description
A black and white image taken from a tower of SD45 locomotives leading a coal drag heading to the Con Edison Plant in California.
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Letter from W. H. Bancroft to J. Ross Clark, February 4, 1911
Date
1911-02-04
Description
Letter approving construction of railroad employees' cottages in Clark's Las Vegas Townsite.
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Slide of moving train, Boulder City, Nevada, circa 1930s
Date
1930 to 1939
Description
A black and white image of a train taken near the Six Companies yard north of Boulder City, heading south. Information from back of photo or photo sleeve states "First passenger train entering Boulder City," however, the train is going in the wrong direction.
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Photograph of a Union Pacific locomotive traveling through a canyon, 1956 to 1957
Date
1956 to 1957
Description
A black and white image of a Union Pacific train traveling through a canyon. The train is labeled "City of Las Vegas" and may be a GMC (General Motors Diesel Division) autotrain that rode between December 18, 1956 to September 15, 1957.
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Telegram from Leo A. McNamee to A .S. Halsted, July 6, 1922
Date
1922-07-06
Description
Message concerns keeping strikers off railroad property.
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Telegram from C. C. Larkin (Salt Lake City) to G. A. Cunningham (Salt Lake City), April 30, 1959
Date
1956-04-30
Description
Larkin had discovered that some people and businesses between Las Vegas and Lake Mead were being supplied with water from the railroad shop well. They needed to be advised that they now needed to make arrangements with the water district for their water.
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Photograph of Condor Canyon, Bullionville (Nev.), circa 1916
Date
1915 to 1917
Description
Bullionville and Pioche Railroad Grade tracks running through Condor Canyon.
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Telegram from G. A. Cunningham (Salt Lake City) to V. W. Smith (Los Angeles) and C. C. Larkin (Salt Lake City), May 4, 1959
Date
1959-05-04
Description
The water district waived the restriction on the railroad furnishing Las Vegas residents from their shop well until they had the capacity to do so themselves, and Cunningham advised that this arrangement continue as long as needed.
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Photograph of Ludlow Yard, Nevada, 1912
Date
1912
Description
Transcribed from behind photograph, "Ludlow Yards of Tonapah and Tidewater Railroad, Santa Fe mainline through center of photograph, Ludlow and Southern at top right (smoke plume)."
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