Skip to main content

Search the Special Collections and Archives Portal

Photograph of locomotive, Las Vegas, Nevada, May 15, 1980

Image

File
Download pho020146.tif (image/tiff; 18.67 MB)

Information

Date

1980-05-15

Description

Union Pacific #8444 steam locomotive. Northern class, 4-8-4 wheel arrangement with "FEF" class designation. First of type built in 1937 for freight and passenger service. One of the last mobile steam engines, it was the biggest attraction of the land auction reenactment celebrating the Diamond Jubilee (75th anniversary) of the City of Las Vegas.

Digital ID

pho020146

Physical Identifier

0045_0068
    Details

    Citation

    pho020146. Florence Lee Jones Cahlan Photographs. PH-00045. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d1hx15v8b.

    Rights

    This material is made available to facilitate private study, scholarship, or research. It may be protected by copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity rights, or other interests not owned by UNLV. Users are responsible for determining whether permissions are necessary from rights owners for any intended use and for obtaining all required permissions. Acknowledgement of the UNLV University Libraries is requested. For more information, please see the UNLV Special Collections policies on reproduction and use (https://www.library.unlv.edu/speccol/research_and_services/reproductions) or contact us at special.collections@unlv.edu.

    Standardized Rights Statement

    Digital Provenance

    Digitized materials: physical originals can be viewed in Special Collections and Archives reading room

    Extent

    2944 x 2216 pixels
    4.91 x 3.69 inches
    19,571,952 bytes

    Language

    English

    Publisher

    University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries

    Format

    image/tiff