Detail View: Image Archives: People and Rail Car Maintenance

File Name: 
2013.21-1062-1-18.jpg
catalog number: 
2013.21-1062-1-18
collection: 
Fieldwork, Historical
title: 
People and Rail Car Maintenance
creator: 
Brittany Whitfield
creator type: 
creator of digital collection
creator: 
Alfred M. Bailey
creator type: 
photographer
creator: 
Daniel Steelman
creator type: 
scanning technician
description: 
Unidentified people around the Galloping Goose #3 at the railway depot in Placerville, Colorado. October 1948. These railcars ran on the narrow gauge Rio Grande Southern Railroad through the San Juan Mountains of the Rocky Mountains between the 1930s and early 1950s. It currently resides at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, California. Scanning and access made possible by a grant from NEH.
subject terms: 
People; Railcars; Galloping Goose #3; Galloping Geese; Rio Grande Southern Railroad; Narrow gauge railroads; Motors; Placerville; Colorado; Buildings; Structures; Depots; San Juan Mountains; Rocky Mountains
date: 
October 1948
date type: 
date of photograph
date: 
August 23, 2016
date type: 
date of scanning
location: 
USA, Colorado, Placerville
modified: 
No
format: 
image/jpg
file size: 
4.0 MB
source: 
35mm black and white negative scanned with Nikon Super Coolscan 5000 at 4000 DPI and 16 bit grayscale.
rights: 
Use with permission Denver Museum of Nature and Science