Man driving an 8-mule team transporting ore in two wagons in desert community, California, ca.1890-1892 

Mule team and loaded ore wagons at stamp mill, Mojave Desert, ca.1900 

Mule team and loaded ore wagons at stamp mill in desert, ca.1890-1892 

Desert Station of Southern Pacific Railroad at Palmdale showing a train in station, ca.1895 

Borax Smith's 20-mule team hauling borax across the desert, Death Valley [?], ca.1890 

Desert School House, Little Rock, Mojave Desert, ca.1903 

Raymond Street Station along the Santa Fe Railroad, Los Angeles, ca.1886 

Prospector in the desert with horse and two burros, 1880-1910 

Twenty-mule team standing in front of John Searl's borax warehouse in Mojave, ca.1880 

Grand opening of the Colton-San Bernardino-Redlands Railroad, 1898 

Southern Pacific Railroad Station and horse car in Ventura, ca.1905 

Sketch of the San Bernardino Mission by H.C. Ford, showing the Cucamonga Mountain Range, 1880 

Exterior view of the Exchange Building in the community of Wilmington before the arrival of the railroad, Los Angeles, 1863 

Exterior view of the Southern Pacific Railroad Station at the Yuma Hotel in Yuma, Arizona, ca.1900 

Exterior view of the San Bernardino Catholic Church, showing the Father's residence at left, ca.1900 

Los Angeles and San Pedro Alameda Street Station, the first railroad into Los Angeles, ca.1875 

Veterans "Teddy's Terrors" waving goodbye from the back of a train at Colton Station, San Bernardino, ca.1904 

Los Angeles and Independence Railroad Depot, San Pedro Street & Fourth Street, before 1888 

Los Angeles and San Gabriel Railroad train on the bridge at Garvanza, the first trestle across the Arroyo Seco, approaching Highland Park from South Pasadena, ca.1885 

People in Pasadena celebrating the arrival of Santa Fe's first train on the San Gabriel Rail Road, Los Angeles, September 21, 1885