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San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Side view of the exterior of a railroad passenger car, with "Los Angeles & San Gabriel Valley" painted along the top side. Car sits on a track in an open, empty area.
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Visual Materials
One cabinet card showing a group of men, women, and a child sitting in a railroad passenger car and facing the camera. Sitters hold a doll, a horn, a magazine, and one man appears to be drawing.
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Rare Books
"This book is the first of a series that will show, through drawings and photographs, the large and varied passenger car fleets of the railroads which are Burlington Northern. The cars in these fleets are of special interest for several reasons. For example, Great Northern's Empire Builder was the first completely new streamliner to enter service after WWII and was the first train to feature Day-Nite coaches with leg-rest seats, and sleepers with ice water on tap in all private rooms. ... Many of the cars contained herein have been rebuilt, sold, or scrapped before the BN merger and are included here because they are especially interesting or significant"--From Introduction.
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Visual Materials
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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Visual Materials
Workmen stand on and around a railroad track of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad under construction in Pasadena, California. Several handcarts sit on the track. A public library and reading room and the office of architect Charles Ehrenfeld sit on either side of track.
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Visual Materials
A long table decorated with garlands and grapes is set up under a trellis roofed structure for a banquet on September 16, 1885, in Pasadena, California, to celebrate the opening of the line of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad. Several women in light colored dresses stand along either side, some holding plates of food. Many other men and women are gathered under the structure facing camera.
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