"Wedding of the rails", showing the crowd moving towards the center, 1926

Photograph of "Wedding of the rails", a re-enactment of the ceremony celebrating the connection of Los Angeles and San Francisco by the Southern Pacific Railroad, showing the crowd moving towards the center, 1926. A train stands on the left and another on the right with the crowd standing in front of them. The crowd moves towards the center space between the two trains. They are finely dressed with most of them in suits and dresses but several dressed in cowboy costumes. A man dressed as a Native American stands on the train on the left with an elderly man in a suit just in front of him. Several woman stand on the train on the right. Boys watch the festivities from a small structure in the background.