ER, HH, both photos are of the Cahuenga Valley Railroad. Both locomotives were built by the H.K. Porter company of Pittsburgh, PA.
See this site:
http://hollywoodphotographs.com/sear...ey%20railroad/
See this site for some history:
https://www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/l...ahuenga-valley
Regarding what appears to be a railroad running on a dirt roadway; it was not uncommon in the period that the CVR was built to keep costs down by laying track on the ground and ballasted not with crushed rock but with the dirt present at the location. This was usually not a problem for light duty railroads as long as the ROW was monitored and maintained on a regular basis. Indeed, the Orange Empire Railway museum a Perris, California did this quite successfully on its storage tracks and the short loop around the property in its early days. Normal rains followed by hot summer days would solidify the dirt in to an almost concrete like hardness that would keep the rails in alignment and level. Abnormal weather could pose a problem however, especially heavy rains which would turn the "ballast" into a muddy, unstable mush, requiring re-leveling and re-alignment.
Cheers,
Jack
what do you mean by, it spanned an 'oil spur' of the Cahuenga Valley Railroad? Didn't it span Bimini Slough?
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Now I'm intrigued by the
Cahuenga Valley Railroad,
HH.
Here's a CVR locomotive on Prospect Avenue in 1900. (we might have seen this before on NLA)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/charmainezoe/10359073803
And here's a much earlier photograph showing some passengers.
http://hollywoodphotographs.com/deta...-in-hollywood/
I don't see any rails in this photograph. Is that even possible for this type of train?
*on second thought, maybe this
isn't the Cahuenga Valley Railroad (even though it was labeled as such)
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Bruce Torrence at Hollywood Photograph Collection, "Cahuenga Valley Railroad in Hollywood, 1888"
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