Description given with photograph: "Depot of the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad built in 1906. This served the railroad for many years until the present very modernistic structure took its place."
A black and white image of the front exterior of the Union Pacific Railroad Passenger Depot, located in early Las Vegas. Four cars are parked in front of the building. Text from the bottom of the image reads: "Passenger Depot, Las Vegas, Nevada, 3-9-24."
There was an inscription on the image. "This photo was taken in Beatty, Nevada in the mid-1930s. Engine #8 of the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad can be seen idling in the railroad yards. The Tonopah and Tidewater was one of the three railroads serving Beatty during the Rhyolite mining boom of 1906-07. It was built in 1907 and ran until 1940. The tracks were removed in 1943. The other two lines were the Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad (1906-1918) and the Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad (1906-1928). The Tonopah and Tidewater ran from Ludlow, CA to Goldfield, NV, although its rails only reached Beatty. The railroad used both L. V. and T.R.R. and B. G. R.R. track between Beatty and Goldfield. Engine #8 was a 2-8-0 Baldwin built for the T. & T. in 1907. The engine was sold to Kaiser Steel Company in 1944 when the T. & T. was abandoned. Kaiser rebuilt it and used it as a switcher until it was scrapped, probably in the 1950s."
The Union Pacific Railroad Collection Index series (1995) consists of a four volume index, created by Robert "Bob" Coffin and compiled by Christy M. Hooper. This index provides a cross-reference to the Union Pacific filing numbers used for the collection materials and noted at the file level for each record. Note that hand-written box numbers in volume I do not correspond to the current numbering system.