Series XXV: Southern Pacific Railroad: Los Angeles SoPac Yards

This series consists of photographs of the Southern Pacific's facilities in Los Angeles, California. These photographs were submitted to the Commission as Employees' Exhibit 99, are referred to by the letters BB, and were taken by B.J. Mahoney. There is no extant testimony for these photographs, but there are hand written notes describing their contents. The Southern Pacific was a class I railroad in the western United States. It covered a vast territory, with lines stretching from New Orleans through Texas, New Mexico and Arizona to Los Angeles; from Los Angeles up the West Coast through San Francisco and Sacramento to Portland, Oregon; from Chicago through St. Louis to Dallas and Ft. Worth, Texas; and from San Francisco through Nevada to Ogden, Utah. The Sunset Route, between New Orleans and Los Angeles, went through El Paso, Tucson and Phoenix, with a branch line heading south into Mexico at Nogales. The photographs in this series document the SP facilities in Los Angeles and a small portion of the surrounding city.