The YOSEMITE VALLEY RAILROAD COMPANY

El Portal Photo #00 Photo: Edgar Cohen, Authors collection.
East end of the El Portal Depot. Note the open waiting area.

El Portal Photo #00
Photo: Authors collection.
West end of El Portal Depot and freight platform.

El Portal Photo #00
Photo: University of California, Bancroft Library Collection.
Staff talking over business?

El Portal Photo + train
Photo: Merced County Historical Society, Courthouse Museum.
Train waiting at El Portal Depot

El Portal Photo #10
Photo: Edgar Cohen Authors Collection.
Number 21 working at El Portal

El Portal Photo #03
Photo: Yosemite Natioal Park Research Library.
The Seldom Used "Arm Strong" Turntable
Trains were normally turned at Moss Canyon.

El Portal Photo #03a
Photo: Alfred Rose; Lee Foster Collectiob, via Donald Foster
The Seldom Used "Arm Strong" Turntable
and warehouse (April 1944).

El Portal Photo #01
Photo: Merced County Historical Society, Courthouse Museum.
Eastern end of Tracks, Depot, and Train Shed at El Portal..

El Portal Photo #01
Photo: Merced County Historical Society, Courthouse Museum.
The western end of Train Shed and Depot at El Portal.

El Portal Photo
Photo: Authors Collection.
Close up of the dispatchers windows and ticket office. on the southern side.


El Portal Photo #07
Photo: Authors Collection.
North side of Depot
By the time this photo was snapped the waiting area had been closed in.

El Portal Photo #09
Photo: Authors Collection.
Freight Platform - Many beer cases awaiting transport to the Valley

El Portal Photo #04
Photo: Merced County Historical Society, Courthouse Museum.
Western end of Depot and Train Shed

El Portal Photo #02
Photo: Yosemite Natioal Park Research Library.
Number 20 on a winter day in 1921. Lady on running board may be Dorothy Nickerson, daughter of Grant Nickerson (YVRR Chief Engineer) and future wife of Melvin Williams a YV locomotive engineer.

El Portal Photo #02
Photo: Unknown.
Number 22 waiting to pull out of El Portal