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2025.0.130Description
Negative of a sign for engine #18 in Dehy Park. It has two columns of ext and a map.
"Slim Princess" Engine Number 18. Offspring of the Virginia and Truckee Railway, the Carson and Colorado Railway was conceived to bridge the gap between the Carson and Colorado Rivers. It was incorporated in Nevada on May 10, 1880, by Wm. Sharon of Virginia City, and D. O. Mills of San Francisco. Construction started at Mound House, east of Carson City, Nevada (on the Virginia and Truckee Railway), and finally ended at Keeler, California, in 1883. Southern Pacific acquired the Carson and Colorado capital stock in 1900. It was operated by the Nevada and California Railway, a subsidiary of Southern Pacific, from 1905 to 1938, when the track north of Benton, California, was abandoned. The remaining line from Laws to Keeler, on the east side of Owens Valley, operates under the San Joaquin Division of the Southern Pacific. This narrow gauge railway was affectionately named the "Slim Princess" years ago.