Santa Clarita Valley History In Pictures

Southern Pacific Freight Train at Ravenna
Soledad Canyon

[FULL VIEW]  [CLOSEUP

Postcard ca. 1970. Ravenna station behind the train? (Yellow structure at right appears to be a private home.) Back reads:

SD39 #5308, a 2,300-horsepower unit built in September of 1968 by Electro-Motive for Southern Pacific, works on the point of Westbound tonnage at Ravenna, California. Three additional units and fifty-seven cars stretch out behind the #5308's drawbar in Soledad Canyon.

D-2022 Ektrachrome by Gary G. Allen — Chatham Publishing Co., P.O. Box 283, Burlingame, CA 94010.


HS9010b: 9600 dpi jpeg from original postcard purchased in 2003 by Leon Worden, donated to SCV Historical Society
RAVENNA RAILHEAD

thumbnail

1940s-1950s

thumbnail

1967-70

thumbnail

1967-70

thumbnail

1967-70

thumbnail

1967-70

thumbnail

ca. 1970

thumbnail

Excursion 4/17/1988

thumbnail

9/18/1991

RETURN TO TOP ]   RETURN TO MAIN INDEX ]   PHOTO CREDITS ]   BIBLIOGRAPHY ]   BOOKS FOR SALE ]
SCVHistory.com is another service of SCVTV, a 501c3 Nonprofit • Site contents ©SCVTV
The site owner makes no assertions as to ownership of any original copyrights to digitized images. However, these images are intended for Personal or Research use only. Any other kind of use, including but not limited to commercial or scholarly publication in any medium or format, public exhibition, or use online or in a web site, may be subject to additional restrictions including but not limited to the copyrights held by parties other than the site owner. USERS ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE for determining the existence of such rights and for obtaining any permissions and/or paying associated fees necessary for the proposed use.