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description

Summary

Significance: The largest and most comprehensive railroad heavy repair facilities in the Western United States, the unusually self-sufficient Sacramento Shops repaired locomotives and cars throughout its life and built new ones as late as 1937.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1057

Survey number: HAER CA-303-B

Building/structure dates: 1888-1905 Initial Construction

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date_range

Date

1905 - 1980
person

Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator
O'Connell, Kristen, transmitter
place

Location

Sacramento (Calif.) ,  38.58157, -121.49440
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Source

Library of Congress
link

Link

http://www.loc.gov/
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Copyright info

No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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