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Title: Southern Pacific Coal Train at Toulon, Nevada (editor's title)
Creator: Burman, Shirley
Description: Southern Pacific coal train en route to the coal-fired North Valmy Power Plant. The train is passing Toulon, Nevada, approaching the grade that brings the railroad out of the Humboldt Sink and into the Carson Sink. The North Valmy plant opened in 1981 and was Nevada's first coal-fired power plant. With no natural coal reserves in the state, all coal burned in Nevada arrives by train. Records 2412 and 2413 depict switching operations at North Valmy.
Classification: Railroads in the Landscape (LCSH)
Date Created: 1985-12-13
Resource Type: Image (DCMI Type Vocabulary)
Format: Color slide
Rights: Shirley Burman, Sacramento, California
Coverage: Spatial, Toulon, Nevada; Temporal, December 13, 1985
Extent: 35 mm
Source: Shirley Burman
Url: http://www.americanrailroadwomen.com/
Depicted Railroad: Southern Pacific
Location: Toulon, Nevada
Creator Description: Shirley Burman, a photographer and photo-historian, dropped out of high school in 1952 to join the Women Marines, where she found romance, was married, and ultimately became the mother of five children. In 1972, she earned a bachelor's degree in art from the University of California, David, and began a career as a photographer and illustrator. She collaborated on the book Whistle Across the Land (1983), has created two traveling exhibits about women in railroading, and is widely published.
Collection: Shirley Burman Collection
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