Railroad Photograph Collection

Collection

Identifier: PICT-2001-016

Staff Only

Scope and Content

The Railroad Photograph Collection contains photographs of trains and train cars, several taken in New Mexico and Los Angeles, California. The images date back to 1904 and include several photographs and information cards about steam engines developed by Baldwin Locomotive Works. The collection also features photographs of many individual passenger cars. The majority of the collection relates to the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway.

The collection includes one photograph of an Albuquerque streetcar manufactured by the Albuquerque Traction Company, several cars, locomotives and trains operated by the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway, a rotary plow car operated by the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railway, a Southern Pacific locomotive, and a Union Pacific passenger car. The majority of the photographs of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe cars and trains were photographed in New Mexico and Los Angeles, California. Also featured are the Super Chief and El Capitan passenger trains operated by the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway from the 1930s until 1971. Selected items from this collection are available on-line at the New Mexico's Digital Collections.

Some photographs taken by George E. Votava.

Dates

1904-1972

Language of Materials

English

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Copy Restrictions

Limited duplication of print and manuscript material allowed for research purposes. Copyright to some of the photographs may be held by the photographer George E. Votava. User is responsible for all copyright compliance. For more information see the Photographs and Images Research Guide and contact the Pictorial Archivist.

Extent

116 items (1 box) : 116 photographs

Additional Description

Abstract

Arrangement

The collection is arranged alphabetically according to the railroad companies operating the cars and trains in the photographs.

Physical Location

B2. Shelved by Pictorial Number.