Genre: news photographs / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Collection: OpenUCLA Collections / Names: Southern Pacific Railroad Company / Subject: Transportation - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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Description:: Crowd of men, women, and children on dirt area near Southern Pacific "Prosperity Special" train, showing number 3668, two men standing on top of train
Date:: 1922
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: 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. …
Date:: 1922
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections