Virginia and Truckee Railway at mid-century featured at March 20 Carson City lecture
The Carson City Historical Society will present its first "Third Thursday" lecture of 2014 with "The Virginia and Truckee Railway at mid-century and beyond: A personal glimpse," by Steve VanDenburgh.
The March 20, 6 p.m. presentation is at the Business Resource Innovation Center, also known as BRIC, which is a partnership of Carson City Library, Office of Business Development, Building, Engineering, Planning and Business Licensing, located at 108 E. Proctor Street.
VanDenburgh will show photographs related to V&T railroading. The V&T imagery is dominated by railroading-related scenes in the Carson City area from 1949, and includes additional views from 1953 onward. That photography is preceded by several classic non-railroad images that reveal rural and downtown settings in the Carson City area during the 1940s recorded by long-time Glenbrook property owner Edmund Maute Spieker (1895-1978).
Steve VanDenburgh is a life-long Westerner and a 46-year resident of Carson City. He has been specializing in railroading-related topics since 1948 (age 12). He was a Southern Pacific locomotive fireman in the San Francisco-Salinas area during the summer of 1955, between his sophomore and junior years at college. Steve's photographs of the Southern Pacific narrow gauge railroad in California were featured at the Center for Railroad Photography & Art conference last April at Lake Forest College, 30 miles north of Chicago.
Professionally, VanDenburgh was an earth scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey for four-plus decades, with a background in geochemistry and hydrology. The Nevada Water Resources Association's annual meeting in February 2014 in Las Vegas honored him with a NWRA Liftetime Achievement Award for his contribution to the state's water-resources community.
This presentation is free and open to the public. It is part of a series of "third Thursday" lectures by the Carson City Historical Society and is presented in cooperation with the Carson City Library. For more information, please see CCHistorical.org or contact David Bugli at 775-883-4154.
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