Unpublished publicity photo for the 5000 class locomotives (July 1925)

Photograph of eight costumed Fanchon and Marco dancers holding celebratory ribbons in front of Southern Pacific Locomotive No. 5004 in commemoration of the locomotive's delivery to east end of passenger platform of the passenger depot in Sacramento, California; this is the First No. 2, the famous Overland Limited. The foundry building in the Sacramento railyards is in the background; the track is the lead to the new SP Sacramento station, then under construction; the photograph was considered too risque by Southern Pacific for a publicity photo; title supplied by cataloger; much of the metadata supplied by Kyle Wyatt.