Transcontinental Railroad

Operation

American History Museum

Standard Time

Freight

UPRR Bill of Landing

UPRR Bill of Landing

UPRR Bill, 1884

UPRR Bill, 1884

UPRR Stock killed, 1887

UPRR Stock killed, 1887

UPRR Livestock Bill of Landing, 1891

UPRR Livestock Bill of Landing, 1891

UPRR freight rates, 1869

UPRR freight rates, 1869

Tourism

Nelsons Pictorial Guide Book, Union Pacific Railroad

Nelsons Pictorial Guide Book, Union Pacific Railroad (click cover to see inside)

Nelsons Pictorial Guide Book, Central Pacific Railroad

Nelsons Pictorial Guide Book, Central Pacific Railroad (click cover to see inside)

Nelsons Pictorial Guide Book, Salt Lake City

Nelsons Pictorial Guide Book, Salt Lake City (click cover to see inside)

Telegraphy

Western Union completed the first Transcontinental telegraph in 1861, and the telegraph was essential for the Transcontinental Railroad as well. A telegraph message signalled the completion of the line, and would serve to coordinate train schedules and railroad operations in the decades to come.

Central Pacific Telegraph Key

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Central Pacific Telegraph Key

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Telegraph cross arm with ramshorn insulators

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Telegraph cross arm with ramshorn insulators, found near the Great Salt Lake

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Model Citizens

The Ammunition Dump 1919

Crossings, (sculpture)

[Trade catalogs from Philadelphia Business Progress Assoc.]

Jar (Image withheld, pending review)

The Railroad history index, 1921-1984 / comp. by Thomas T. Taber III

Bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

Railroad repair yards, Hasselt, Belgium : date of survey, 8 November 1944 / Physical Damage Division

Tripod bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

Historic resource study : Steamtown National Historic Site, Pennsylvania / by A. Berle Clemensen

Analysis of railways: consisting of a series of reports on the railways projected in England and Wales, in the year M.DCC.XXXVII. ... By Francis Whishaw

The Pacific tourist. Adams & Bishop's illustrated trans- continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean ... A complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... Frederick E. Shearer, editor. With special contributions by F. V. Hayden [and others] Illus. by Thomas Moran [and others] New York, Adams & Bishop, 1884

[Trade catalogs from Lubrication Products Co.]

locomotive builder's plate

Bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

A ramble in wonderland, being a description of the marvelous region traversed by the Northern Pacific Railroad, Illustratd from photos by Haynes

Jar (Image withheld, pending review)

Bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

Edward P. Thorn Owney tag

Signal in the cab Bulletin no. 144

FACTORY AND RAILROAD OIL STORAGE

Celt (Image withheld, pending review)

Tripod vessel (Image withheld, pending review)

Jar (Image withheld, pending review)

Bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

Off the clock : Walker Evans and the crisis of American capital, 1933-38 / by Jessica Lee May

Safety Rules:Train, Locomotive and Other Transportation Employees

Western Maryland Rwy Co Hagerstown Division Timetable No 9...1953

Ashcroft's railway directory for 1868 : containing an official list of the officers and directors of the rail-roads in the United States and Canadas, together with their financial condition and amount of rolling stock / compiled from official reports by John Ashcroft

The Pennsylvania Railroad : schedule of regulations and rates of pay for the government of engineers, firemen, and hostlers in road and yard service

Aphidiens

locomotive builder's plate

Plethodon jordani

Pseudacris crucifer

Wooden telephone pole

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