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[Empalme engine terminal]

Description: Photograph of several buildings and a smoke stack comprising the Southern Pacific shops and engine terminal. There are railroad tracks visible in the lower part of the image and an open, fenced field at left. Text in the lower-right portion says "R.R. shops Empalme, Mex. Foto Hopkins."
Date: June 1922
Creator: Hopkins

[Empty Ore Car in Mexico]

Description: Porter Locomotive No. 4, type 0-6-4T heads an empty ore train, enroute from the smelter in Chihuahua City to the mines at Santa Eulalia, Mexico on the 30-inch gauge El Potosi Industrial and Chihuahua Railroad in June 1922. On the mountain side in the background are steel towers supporting an aerial tramway, which had recently been completed for transporting ore from the mine to a reduction mill.
Date: June 1922
Creator: Blanton, Bert C.
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