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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 debris from washout, 1938
  2. Constructing new six span bridge east of existing bridge, 1938
  3. Damage done to bridge where four bents of this bridge being entirely washed out, 1938
  4. Damage done to embankment and track structure and construction of shoo-fly at MP 416.50 between Vigo and Carp, Nevada, 1938
  5. East of Tunnel No. 1 indicating 1000 feet of washed out trackage, 1938
  6. Milepost 442.7 tracks undermined for approximately 75 feet, 1938
  7. Pile bents have been washed away and bridge deck twisted and partially leaning against the Santa Fe steel bridge structure, 1938
  8. Bridge 191.19 over Mojave River immediately west of Afton, 1938
  9. Bridge 7.75, looking north toward Moapa, Nevada from south bank of the Muddy River, 1938
  10. Bridge debris from washout, 1938
  11. Damage done to embankment and track structure and construction of shoo-fly at MP 416.50 between Vigo and Carp, Nevada, 1938
  12. Milepost 447.89 maintenance wall broken, 1938
  13. Pile bents have been washed away and bridge deck twisted and partially leaning against the Santa Fe steel bridge structure, 1938
  14. Roadway equipment on Union Pacific tracks; flood waters washed away telegraph line between these two tracks and prior to taking this picture flood waters were diverted to north side of Southern Pacific Tracks, carrying waters into existing San Antonio Valley wash, 1938
  15. Rock Spur track including bridge entirely gone with four or five cars washed into stream bed; also indicates loss of mainline bridge west of Baxter, California, 1938
  16. Two span frame trestle undamaged despite 100 feet of track washed out to the west, 1938
  17. Baxter station ground, rock spur and location of bridge west of Baxter washed out, 1938
  18. Bridge 191.19 over Mojave River immediately west of Afton, 1938
  19. Bridge undamaged despite track washed out in background, 1938
  20. Channel change made by Southern Pacific and Union Pacific forces diverting water, 1938
  21. Channel cut by flood waters, removing embankment adjacent to bridge, 1938
  22. Damage done to embankment and track structure and construction of shoo-fly at MP 416.50 between Vigo and Carp, Nevada, 1938
  23. From hilltop above Bridge 7.75 showing decking from this bridge 300 feet down-stream, 1938
  24. Pile bents have been washed away and bridge deck twisted and partially leaning against the Santa Fe steel bridge structure, 1938
  25. Washout one milepost east of Caliente showing how track has been shifted, 1938