Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
A series of three images showing a Union Pacific train at the "continuous rail" crossing in South Gate. The image on the left shows a crowd of onlookers at the South Gate station, watching as a train pulls in. The center image shows a crowd of people facing the last car of a train, with six men on the rear platform numbered in white ms. writing and identified below as "1. Senator W.J. Carr, State Railroad Commission ; 2. H.H. Whalen ; 3. Rex B. Goodcell ; 4. Governor C.C. [Clement Calhoun] Young ; 5. Mayor, John C. Porter ; 6. Elmer Snyder". Writing in white in the bottom left of the center image reads "Special Union Pacific Train, at first Official ; Demonstration of "Continuous Rail" crossing ; At South Gat [sic], California, Aug. 7th 1930." Writing in white in the bottom right corner of the center image reads "Photo By ; F.M. Huddleston". The image on the right shows a locomotive stopped at an intersection of rail lines, with a group of people standing around and looking at it.
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Train at the Needles train station.
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Photograph of a Vischer drawing of a passenger train on the San Francisco-San Jose railroad crossing San Francisquito Creek.
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pack train with horses crossing Big Creek on a suspension bridge at Big Creek #1. .
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Street view of a railroad crossing at Grevalia with a mailbox and automobiles.
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Image of Locomotive No. 1 and passenger cars of the Los Angeles and Independence Railroad on train tracks next to the railroad's terminal at Fifth Street and San Pedro Street in Los Angeles, California.
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