Denver and Rio Grande Railroad [Southern Utah Railroad] Shay Type Engine

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Title Denver and Rio Grande Railroad [Southern Utah Railroad] Shay Type Engine
Collection Mss C 275; Shipler Commercial Photographers Collection
Photo Number Shipler #10924
Creator Shipler Commercial Photographers; Shipler, Harry
Publisher Utah State Historical Society; Funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Date of Photograph 7 August 1910
Date 1910-08-07
Subject Railroad travel; Railroads; Railroads - Cars; Steam engines; Locomotives; Men in popular culture
Corporate Name Southern Utah Railroad Company
Spatial Coverage Utah; Carbon County; Hiawatha
Description Image shows several men posing for a photograph next to a Shay engine at a Carbon County railroad yard.
Comment This Shay locomotive was actually owned by the Southern Utah Railroad Company. Although the original Shipler caption labeled it as the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, the Southern Utah Railroad was actually a private company which had no affiliation with the Denver and Rio Grande.
Rights Management Digital Image (c) 2002 Utah State Historical Society. All Rights Reserved.
Holding Institution Utah State Historical Society
Relation Shipler Commercial Photographers, Series 1
File Name 39222000694179
Source Format Glass Plate Negative
Source Size 10 inches x 8 inches
Source Physical Description Glass plate is broken and is in several pieces.
Source Donors Shipler, William H.
Source Donation Date 1988
Type Image
Format image/jpeg
Resolution TIFF: 800 ppi
Bit Depth 8-bit grayscale
Dimensions JPEG: 700 x 556 pixels
Scanning Device Creo-Scitex Jazz+ Flatbed Scanner
Date Digital 2002-07-09
Scanned By Digital Technologies, Marriott Library, University of Utah
Collection Information http://heritage.utah.gov/apps/history/findaids/C00275/c0275.xml
ARK ark:/87278/s6rx9qfk
Setname dha_scp
ID 531371
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rx9qfk
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