Southern Pacific snow shed, Emigrant Gap, Calif. – Antique Print
![Southern Pacific snow shed, Emigrant Gap, Calif., [between 1920 and 1940] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/68/68f4f43a11e3-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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A window into the past: Southern Pacific snow shed, Emigrant Gap, Calif., preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Southern Pacific snow shed, Emigrant Gap, Calif.
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Emigrant Gap, a mountain stop on the Southern Pacific line in Placer County, California, is the setting for this view of a timber snow shed carrying the tracks through heavy winter weather. The Sierra Nevada route was among the snowiest in the country, and railroads there built long covered galleries of heavy timber to keep drifts and slides off the rails. Southern Pacific maintained a large system of these sheds, and the print records one of the facilities that kept trains moving through the mountains between the wars.
| Created / published | [between 1920 and 1940] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1920-1940. |
| Subjects | Southern Pacific Railroad Company--Facilities--1920-1940. Tunnels--California--Emigrant Gap--1920-1940. Snowsheds--California--Emigrant Gap--1920-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,021 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-164624 |
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