Description: Hobart street in snow; lumber; scenery; Unknown, Maroon colored photo album in possession of TDHS
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Photo location: snow
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County: Nevada
Source: TDHS - Hobart Mills Collection; unknown
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Notes: original photo, poor condition, faded and brittle; Old no 4, with box. Shipping old no. 4 to Sacramento Shops to be restored and exhibited by SPCo at 1915 Exposition. Same image as RUF0009. Engine sometimes referred to as California Pacific, The Flea, which later became Central Pacific No. 229 on the Sierra Nevada Wood & Lumber Co.'s road as No. 4. Before snow tunnels were finished and railroad tracks to Truckee were completed, old steam engine No. 4 was sledged over the snow on Donner Summit by George Schaffer. It was used by the track crews in laying track east toward Reno and Utah. After the Transcontinental Railroad was completed, the engine worked at Hobart Mills before it was abandoned. In 1914 it was sent to Sacramento to be restored and exhibited at the 1915 fair in San Francisco. Additional photo of the remains of the Flea rusting in the swamp behind the Sacramento shops of the Southern Pacific in 1921 - photo from Iron Horses to Promontory Gerald M. Best 1969 book. Built in 1865, the first locomotive to cross the Sierra via the Dutch Flat Donner Lake Wagon Road (DFDLWR) and transported railroad ties and supplies to the railroad and lumber to Reno and Virginia City.
