Re: Photographs of snow

From: "Kyle Wyatt" kwyatt@parks.ca.gov

There are several ... CP bucker snowplow and snow photos from the 1860s ... by A. A. Hart, some of which were published by Houseworth instead of Hart. Here are relevant Houseworth images ... and one relevant Hart-published photo ...

—Kyle

Kyle K. Wyatt
Curator of History & Technology
California State Railroad Museum
111 "I" Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: (916) 324-7660

Houseworth 1251. WINTER VIEW IN CISCO – altitude 5,911 feet

Houseworth 1253. LOCOMOTIVES IN THE SNOW – at Cisco.

Houseworth 1255. CISCO IN WINTER – altitude 5,911 feet

Houseworth 1263. Snow Plow of the Central Pacific Railroad Co. Near Cisco.

Hart 164. Emigrant Gap, Snow Plow and turn Table – SP Collection

Photographs of snow or workers working

Why do there seem to be so few photographs of snow or showing railroad workers at work?