"Wedding of the rails", showing the train in operation, 1926

Photograph of the "Wedding of the rails", a re-enactment of the ceremony celebrating the connection of Los Angeles and San Francisco by the Southern Pacific Railroads, showing the train in operation, 1926. The crowd faces the foreground with the train behind them. The conductor peers out the window on the right as puffs of smoke are secreted from the top of the train at center. The train appears to pull of a car of logs on the far left