H69.459.2202

Trestle Across Great Z
1869
5 HIGH x 8 WIDE x 0.125 DEEP
(12.7 HIGH x 0.32 DEEP)
Museum Purchase
H69.459.2202

"223 Trestle Across great Z," inscribed in emulsion along top edge.

Photograph. Title: 223 Trestle across Great Z (scratched on negative) Image Description: (s223) See title. Physical Description: Stereographic collodion glass plate negative. Sub. Cat.: Transportation -- Railroads. Remarks: Title from Prof. S.J. Sedgwick's "Catalogue": Trestle Great Z.

"The Great Z is a switchback track The switchback was used for a short time while the Union Pacific completed its tunnels." Remarks per Glenn Willumson for the NEA Russell Grant, July 2013 - June 2015.

Public Domain Mark
This work (by Andrew J. Russell), identified by Oakland Museum of California, is free of known copyright restrictions.

Used: Union Pacific Railroad

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