Select copies of reports from the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) and the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) relating to structures of the Central and Southern Pacific Railroads in California, Nevada, and Oregon.
Scope and Content
These reports are copies of studies done by the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) and the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) relating to select structures of the Central and Southern Pacific Railroads in California, Nevada, and Oregon.
Each report includes historical background for specific sites and structures, as well as current descriptions. Each report is illustrated; many include original prints.
CA-196 to CA-215 are HAER reports of the Central Pacific / Southern PacificTranscontinental Railroad Tunnels in the Donner Pass Route.
CA-217 CA-219, OR 92 to OR 96 are HAER reports on the Southern Pacific Natron Cutoff.
CA-220 to CA-224 are HAER reports on the Southern Pacific Shasta Route.
NV-26 is a HAER report on the Southern Pacific Railroad Carlin Shop in Carlin, Nevada.
CA-303 is the report produced as a result of HAER's two-year study (2001-2002) of the Southern Pacific Railroad Shops in Sacramento, California.
CA-2262 is a HAER report on the Southern Pacific Railroad West Oakland Shops in Oakland, California.
CA-2264 is a HAER report on the Southern Pacific Railroad Sixteen Streedt Tower in Oakland, California.
CA-2266 is a HAER report on the Interuban Electric Railroad Twenty-Sixh Street Junction Bridge in Oakland, California.
CA-2805 is a HAER report on the Southern Pacific Railroad Sixteenth Station in Oakland, California.
Historic American Buildings Survey report No. 2340 is a result of HABS' study of the Southern Pacific Railroad Depot (Sacramento Valley Station), Railway Terminal Post Office and Express Building (American Railway Express Building) in 1994.
History / Biographical
•The Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) documents America's historic industrial, engineering and transportation heritage. HAER was formed in 1969 to complement the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), a New Deal Works Progress Administration agency chartered in 1933 to document historic architecture of national or regional significance. Recognizing the fragility and unique nature of the nation's industrial and engineering record, the National Park Service, the Library of Congress and the American Society of Civil Engineers established HAER. A short while later, HAER was endorsed by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers. •HAER conducts surveys and provides detailed documentation of America's historic industrial, engineering and transportation resources as well as the working and living conditions of the people associated with them. These records and those of its companion HABS collection were transferred to the Library of Congress for preservation. A portion of the collection is available on-line thru the American Memory Collections of the Library of Congress at www.loc.gov.
Access Restrictions
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