Southern Pacific "Prosperity Special" train, photographed from top of train, 1922

Title: Southern Pacific "Prosperity Special" train, photographed from top of train, 1922
Date Created: 1922
Date: 1922
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: About 12 cars of the Southern Pacific "Prosperity Special" train, traveling through fields, photographed from the top of one of the train cars, with man in foreground, bending forward away from camera, letters S.P. visible on car in foreground
Related to Los Angeles Times article, July 1, 1922, Thousands See Giant Engines, “Prosperity Special” Reaches Los Angeles, Leviathans of Rail Brought by Southern Pacific, Will be Used to Haul Trains Over Mountains, Monsters of Rail Here to Serve. Cheered by thousands lining the tracks in Southern California towns as it madeits way into Los Angeles, the Southern Pacific Prosperity Special of twenty new Leviathans of the rails reached the city last night and was parked in the Figueroa-street switch at Exposition Park. …
Caption: Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Southern Pacific Railroad, Prosperity Special

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: 3016
uclamss_1429_3016
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cmh20
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