Print, Photographic

Name/Title

Print, Photographic

Entry/Object ID

2012.16.116

Description

B & W digital scan of LA Aqueduct Miners and Mucking Cars at Unidentified Tunnel Portal. Note Miner holding Carbide Lamp and Electric Locomotive used to haul Mucking Cars. "The electric locomotives used for tunnel work were highly satisfactory and efficient machines, manufactured by the Westinghouse and General Electric companies. Up to lengths of haul of half mile, there was not much savings due to the electric locomotive, because of the equipment involved and the cost of operation, not only of the motor, but of the power house." --from LA Aqueduct Construction, Final Report, 1916. pg. 145

Collection

Alex Ross Collection

Made/Created

Date made

1907 - 1913