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

Description:: William L. Brashear receiving a gift from M. A. Nugent (right) at his birthday/retirement party from the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. I. A. Cain stands to the left holding a birthday cake and a large crowd of railroad employees is gathered around the lounge chair Brashear is seated in.
Date:: [1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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
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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
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Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times article, August 13, 1932, "Rail Officials Honored, Shoup and McDonald Guests at Testimonial Luncheon at Biltmore." The article begins: "Two distinguished Californians were honored ... by Harry Chandler ... One of the speakers, C.C. Teague ..."
Date:: August 12, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph appears with 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

Description:: Southern Pacific Los Angeles area superintendent William H. Whalen, in jacket, light shirt, and light tie, and another man in pinstriped suit and tie with cigar, both wearing hats, standing in front of railroad car
Date:: 1922
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Two men shaking hands, both in suits and ties, one wearing hat, one holding hat and cigar, with "Prosperity Special" train in background
Date:: 1922
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Southern Pacific "Prosperity Special" locomotive, numbered 3687, with about 10 men in foreground on railroad tracks, building in background reading L.W. Stockwell
Date:: 1922
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Ten men, most in suits and ties, one in military uniform, some holding hats, standing on and near railroad tracks. R.E. Kelly, 2nd from left, W.H. Whalen, 6th from left.
Date:: 1922
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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