[Mexico - Railroad scenes: locomotive #124 in mouth of tunnel, Temaposa Canon] – Antique Print
![[Mexico - Railroad scenes: locomotive #124 in mouth of tunnel, Temaposa Canon], [1895?] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/15/15ba9f0d3222-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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[Mexico - Railroad scenes: locomotive #124 in mouth of tunnel, Temaposa Canon] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Mexico - Railroad scenes: locomotive #124 in mouth of tunnel, Temaposa Canon]
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Locomotive No. 124 sits squarely at the mouth of a tunnel, its boiler and smokestack framed by the dark arch of the cut. The caption, which the record flags as unverified, places the scene in a canyon it spells "Temaposa." Photographer William Henry Jackson made a series of railroad views in Mexico during the 1880s and 1890s, when the Mexican Central and related lines pushed through steep mountain terrain that required tunnels, cuttings, and trestles. Images like this one were often used to promote the lines' engineering and to document the new routes.
| Created / published | [1895?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photo by W.H. Jackson. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,000 × 3,905 px · prints to 10 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-125069 |
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