Photograph of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad Depot at Alison Street and Anderson Street, Los Angeles, 1884. A steam engine attached to its coal car with a straight smokestack and cow catcher is pictured in desert terrain. The side of the coal car reads "L.A. & S.G.V." and a mountain is visible in the far distance behind it. The operation was later taken over by the Santa Fe Railroad in 1887.