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LA & San Gabriel Valley RR crossing Columbia St., Pasadena, 1885

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    Train tracks of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad run horizontally in the foreground, with a few men scattered around them on Colorado Street in Pasadena, California. A horse-drawn cart on the left, and businesses, including a lumber yard and carpenter shop are on the right.

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    A wooden trestle bridge and railroad tracks of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad crosses the wide dry river bed of the Arroyo Seco near Pasadena, California. Seen from the side, the tracks run nearly the length of the photograph.

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    Long wooden railroad trestle bridge of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad crosses the wide dry river bed of the Arroyo Seco near Pasadena, California. A single man sits to the right on the tracks with his legs dangling off the edge.

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    Fourteen cabinet card photographs depicting the construction and opening of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad (L.A. & S.G.V.R.R.) in the Los Angeles and Pasadena, California, area in 1885. The images document workers laying the track, railroad bridges (including the wooden trestle bridge across the Arroyo Seco river bed, the exterior and interior of passenger cars, and the Downey Avenue station in Los Angeles, as well as two images related to the opening celebrations of the railroad on September 16, 1885 in Pasadena (photPF 557 and 567). Depicted among the images is the first Pasadena Public Library (photPF 566). Photographs include photographer imprints for E.S. Frost & Son (photPF 556-558, 560-565, 568-569), and J.T. Tuttle & Co. (photPF 559).

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