 Minerva SystemsDr. Cora Angier Sowa |
CORA SOWA'S RIGHT-OF-WAY:RAILROAD HISTORY OF CORA ANGIER SOWAPage 4More Historic Western Railroad Pictures |
Souvenir postcard of the Hanging Bridge over the Royal Gorge, Colorado, ca. 1908.
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- On and Around the Southern Pacific ("Malley" cab-forwards and Tehachapi)
- The Alaskan Railroad
- The Southern Pacific Coast Line at Chatsworth and the Ojai Branch
- The Old Los Angeles Subway Tunnel ("Belmont Tunnel") and Toluca Yards
- Union Station, Plaza, and Angels' Flight
- The Train of Tomorrow
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- The Poughkeepsie Bridge: Trains across the Hudson River
- The Poughkeepsie Bridge reborn as "Walkway Over the Hudson"
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- Click here for the eighth page: Engineers in the Family III, Alexander Lodyguine, Russian (and American) inventor
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More pictures from the archives
The folowing pictures are of places in the Western U.S., most of which I took in the mid-twentieth century. These are supplemented by postcards and other old photos from my collection. These include pictures of the Hanging Bridge in the Royal Gorge of the Arkansas in Colorado (the railroad bridge, not to be confused with the one above the gorge) that I took in the 1950's, when that was still the main line of the Denver and Rio Grande Western; photos that I took of passenger trains and freight engines of the D&RGW at Durango, Colorado; pictures and postcards of snowsheds in Northern California, a very old photo of a wooden trestle in the Siskiyou Mountains, near the California-Oregon border; a nice diamond-stacker of the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad at Grass Valley, California from a promotional brochure of 1902, and a very old photo of the roundhouse of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad at Needles, California.
Colorado: Royal Gorge (Hanging Bridge) and Pueblo |
Train station at Pueblo, Colorado, exterior and
waiting room windows
Durango to Silverton on the Denver & Rio Grande Western |
The Pacific Northwest, Northern California, and Mojave |
Snowsheds and trestles
Nevada County Narrow Gauge
The pictures below are from a promotional booklet of 1902, called Nevada, the Banner Gold County of California. They depict a charming diamond-stacker of the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad at the Grass Valley Station and a streetcar of the competing Nevada County Traction Co. An organization called the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum is building a small working steam engine to resemble the engines of yesteryear. They are at http://ncngrrmuseum.org.
On Route 66
To go to other pages of "Cora Sowa's Right-of-Way," choose the following sections:
- Click here for the first page:
- On and Around the Southern Pacific ("Malley" cab-forwards and Tehachapi)
- The Alaskan Railroad
- The Southern Pacific Coast Line at Chatsworth and the Ojai Branch
- The Old Los Angeles Subway Tunnel ("Belmont Tunnel") and Toluca Yards
- Union Station, Plaza, and Angels' Flight
- The Train of Tomorrow
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