Steam shovel digging a path for the San Diego-Yuma line of San Diego and Arizona Railroad line, California (Southern), 1919

Item Overview

Title

Steam shovel digging a path for the San Diego-Yuma line of San Diego and Arizona Railroad line, California (Southern), 1919

Date Created

1919

Date

1919

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

Steam shovel digging path for San Diego-Yuma line of San Diego and Arizona Railroad line. Construction for the railway line was anticipated to be completed the afternoon of November 15, 1919. This photograph is similar to a photograph that appears with the article "GOLD SPIKE WILL MAKE RAIL DREAM TRUE.: John D. Spreckels to Drive it This Afternoon and Imperial's Steel Link with Tidewater Vision of Half a Century, will Become an Actuality; Road Cost Eighteen Million Dollars; Plan Week of Celebration. BUILDING OF SAN DIEGO AND ARIZONA RAILROAD TO BE FINISHED TODAY. COMPLETE CONSTRUCTION OF NEW RAILROAD TODAY; Service on San Diego-Arizona Line to Start December 1, When Week of Celebration Commences," Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 1919: II1.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: San Diego and Arizona Railroad.
Text from newspaper caption: Construction in Carrizo Gorge

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Dimensions

10 x 12.5 cm.

Medium

b&w glass negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
glass plate negatives

Names

San Diego & Arizona Railway

Location

California, Southern

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Steam shovels
Railroads--Design and construction