Notes: View of Train coming over trestle; copy of Real Photo Post Card RPPC 3 x 5 b/w glossy finish. This photo is not near Truckee, California. This photo is of the 'Glenbrook' also known as the Carson & Tahoe Lumber & Fluming Engine #1. Built by Baldwin in 1875, this narrow gauge 2-6-0 Mogul began its life hauling lumber from the sawmill at Glenbrook, on Lake Tahoe to Spooner Summit where it would be flumed down to Carson City - then hauled by the Virginia & Truckee Railroad up to Virginia City. 1875-1898 C&TL&F #1. 1899-1925 Lake Tahoe Railway & Transportation #1 (Between Truckee and Lake Tahoe). 1926-1937 Stored at Tahoe City, CA 1937-1943 Stored as Nevada County Narrow Gauge #1 at Nevada City, CA. 1943-1981 Nevada State Museum, Carson City, NV static display. 1981-2015 Nevada State Railroad Museum, Carson City, NV. (33 year restoration).(per CM 20190504; TDHS fb posting credited to JH). Also see George E. Gruell's 2001 book, Fire in Sierra Nevada Forests, p. 128, which shows a Carleton Watkins photo of Spooner Summit. Gruell explains that in the 1800s, Spooner Summit was the point where logs from Glenbrook mills were unloaded from the train cars and loaded into flumes to be sent down to Carson City. This 1877 Carleton Watkins photo appears in the Western Nevada Historic Photo Collection.
