Slim Princess, wide valley

Slim Princess, wide valley

By Angela Cotey | February 28, 2024

| Last updated on August 8, 2025


Southern Pacific’s narrow-gauge line in the vast Owens Valley of California was known as the “Slim Princess.” Here a single freight car separates engine from caboose near Zurich (Big Pine) in July 1959.
William H. Mills photo

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