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View of narrow gauge gasoline powered locomotive with empty dump cars at the dam site

Description: View of narrow gauge gasoline powered locomotive with empty dump cars at the dam site. The primitive locomotive had an accelerator, a lever to change direction, and a hand brake. The engineer sat on a pine board.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1917
Call number: photCL SCE 12 - 00069
Find out more: View in the Huntington Digital Library(Opens in new tab); View in the Library catalog(Opens in new tab)

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Photo shows the complex system of railroads and chuting employed to pour concrete the dams at Huntington Lake. Steam locomotives ran trains of three-yard dump cars from the mixing plant to each dam site. At the dam site the standard gauge trains dumped their concrete into one-yard dump cars that were pulled onto the dam on a narrow gauge track with a gasoline powered locomotive.
photCL SCE 12 - 00067