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Oversized_box 01, LLB, 3, SCA Main Stacks, Roller Shelf [Aisle: 1, Section: 5, Shelf: 4], PH--00043, Union Pacific Railroad Photographs, Series IV.

Archival objects in this container:

  1. Bridge structure that remains intact, 1938
  2. Damage done to bridge where four bents of this bridge being entirely washed out, 1938
  3. Damage done to embankment and track structure and construction of shoo-fly at MP 416.50 between Vigo and Carp, Nevada, 1938
  4. East of Afton where easterly portal Tunnel No. 1 is surrounded by washed out embankment, 1938
  5. East of Pomona, showing existing bridge serves no purpose account new channel cut by flood waters washing away embankment immediately east of existing bridge, necessitating new six span pile trestle to restore tracks to operation, 1938
  6. Milepost 442.4 east of Tunnel No. 5, 150 yards of track damaged, 1938
  7. Six bents of this bridge washed out together with ten piling in other bents require replacement, 1938
  8. Thirty feet of track washed out and around existing culvert, 1938
  9. Underpass at Milepost 45.35, Mira Loma main track looking northerly showing floodwaters contained under bridge structure, 1938
  10. Washout within one or two feet from end of tie along east bank of Los Angeles River; also shows Alhambra transfer office and Southern Pacific bridge, 1938
  11. 1500 feet of track washed out, 1938
  12. Bridge 191.19 over Mojave River immediately west of Afton, 1938
  13. Bridge 7.75; looking downstream, showing decking from Bridge 6.83 in foreground; decking from Bridge 7.75 in background, down-stream, 1938
  14. Constructing new six span bridge east of existing bridge, 1938
  15. Damage done to bridge where four bents of this bridge being entirely washed out, 1938
  16. Damage done to embankment and track structure and construction of shoo-fly at MP 416.50 between Vigo and Carp, Nevada, 1938
  17. East of Afton where westerly portal Tunnel No. 1 is surrounded by 1720 feet of washed out trackage, 1938
  18. Milepost 442.7 tracks undermined for approximately 75 feet, 1938
  19. Six bents of this bridge washed out together with ten piling in other bents require replacement, 1938
  20. Structure and embankment washed out, 1938
  21. Underpass at Milepost 45.35, Mira Loma main track looking northerly showing floodwaters contained under bridge structure, 1938
  22. Washout within one or two feet from end of tie along east bank of Los Angeles River; also shows Alhambra transfer office and Southern Pacific bridge, 1938
  23. 150 feet of track washed out, 1938
  24. Bridge 191.19 over Mojave River immediately west of Afton, 1938
  25. Bridge 7.75, looking downstream from south bank of Muddy River, 1938