Sacramento General Shops. Southern Pacific Company -- Pacific Lines. Compiled and written by. . . . [unpublished typescript manuscript].

[Sacramento, CA: Joslyn, 1948]. 4to. 55 leaves., typescript on onion skin typing paper, w/ pencil annotation on title leaf. Limp brown softcovers, hand-written manuscript title on front cover in black & red ink, pencil manuscript annotations and notes on verso of front cover (slight shelfwear), still VG copy. Original typescript manuscript of this concise and detailed history by a former Southern Pacific Sacramento General shop engineer, who retired in 1948, and is perhaps best remembered as developing and designing the 6-chime whistle that became the Southern Pacific standard, and photographer for the SP. This manuscript details not only early Sacramento and California history, but also accounts of the Sacramento, Auburn & Nevada RR, Sacramento Valley RR, and the early development of railroads into Sacramento in the 1850s. Following this are extended chapters on the Central Pacific RR, the building of the Folsom, CA for the Sacramento Valley RR, and the completion of the General Shops and Roundhouses in 1868, as well as descriptions of the Car Shop, Planing Mill, Machine Shop, Boiler Shop, Drawing Room, along with the later introduction of power generating plants, and electric railways. No copies located in Worldcat (3 copies on OAC at Railroad Museum); See: The David L. Joslyn Collection, Pacific Coast Chapter Archive, Railway & Locomotive Historical Society (2006); Avella, Sacramento and the Catholic Church: Shaping a Capital City, pp. 43-49, 288.