Genre: news photographs / Resource Type: still image / Location: California, Southern / Names: San Diego & Arizona Railway - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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.
Date:: 1919
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Viaduct on the San Diego and Arizona Railroad line crossing Campo Creek. This photograph is similar to another one what appears with the article "RUSH GREAT SOUTHWESTERN RAILROAD TO COMPLETION.: San Diego and Arizona, with but Eleven Miles More to Build, will have Trains Running on the Shortest Transcontinental Route in Six Months. Where New Steel Highway to the East is Driving Through Living Rock. NEW RAILROAD TO OPEN VAST, RICH TERRITORY; Commercial Importance of San Diego and Arizona Route Hardly to be Exaggerated," Los Angeles Times, 21 July 1918: II1.
Date:: July 18, 1918
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Two unidentified men stand the viaduct over Campo Creek on the San Diego & Arizona Railway line in Southern California.
Date:: [circa 1918]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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