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November 23, 1952 — Coming through from San Fernando, the Southern Pacific Railroad's San Joaquin Daylight approaches the south portal of San Fernando (Train) Tunnel in the Newhall Pass. Photo by Stan Kistler of Grass Valley, Calif. The northbound San Joaquin Daylight was train No. 51 (southbound was No. 52). This engine is No. 4257, a cab-forward (aka cab-ahead) with a 4-8-8-2 wheel configuration.
A thousand Chinese rail workers spent the better part of a year — and an unknown number gave up their lives — digging the San Fernando Railroad Tunnel. At 6,940 feet, it was the third longest tunnel in the United States when it was completed July 14, 1876. (The tracks went in and the first engine poked its head through in August.) The tunnel, along the Southern Pacific Railroad's San Joaquin Line, linked the San Fernando Valley (at the Newhall Pass) with the Santa Clarita Valley (in Railroad Canyon), facilitating the conjoinder in September 1876 of northern California with Southern California at Lang in present-day Canyon Country.
LW3094: 9600 dpi jpeg from copy print purchased 2017 by Leon Worden.
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Southern Pacific Tunnels Through. Story by Alan Pollack
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C. Watkins Stereoview ~1877
1910
Postcard ~1910
Approach 1952
ATSF Freight Train ~1954
Tehachapi Tunnel No. 10, ~1878
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