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Southern Pacific Railroad Company Records

Collection

Identifier: NC910

Abstract Southern Pacific Railroad Company was a transcontinental railroad company with tracks running east and west through Nevada. Includes train orders for some Nevada trains, 1896-1958; correspondence, 1892-1958; and time tables, 1914-1925. Of note in the orders are communiques regarding President Harding's funeral train and security precautions in World War II; and in the correspondence, the specifications for maximum railroad car sizes, instructions for transport of army personnel in World War...

Dates: 1892-1958

Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department

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Names: Central Pacific Railroad Company X
Subject: World War, 1939-1945 -- Balloons -- Nevada X

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