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  • Transcontinental Railroad
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American History Museum

Golden Spike

Union Pacific 119 train model with tender car View object record

Union Pacific 119 train model with tender car

View object recordJupiter train model with tender car. View object record

Jupiter train model with tender car.

View object recordReplica of the Ceremonial Last Spike at Promontory, Utah, May 10, 1869. View object record

Replica of the Ceremonial Last Spike at Promontory, Utah, May 10, 1869.

View object recordWooden chip cut from a railroad tie, Promontory, Utah, 1869. View object record

Wooden chip cut from a railroad tie, Promontory, Utah, 1869.

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Traveling west with his mother in June 1869, eight-year-old Hart F. Farwell stopped at Promontory, Utah, to cut a chip from a railroad tie at the site of th.

In Popular Culture

Each line hired their own photographer to document the building of the line and celebrate the company’s efforts. The Union Pacific sent photographer Andrew J. Russell to capture the line from Omaha, while Alfred A. Hart documented the construction of the Central Pacific as it crossed the Sierra. Russel’s stereocards were published as “The Great West Illustrated in a Series of Photographic Views Across the Continent” while Hart’s "Scenes in the Sierra Nevada" depicted the CPRR crossing the mountains. Widely disseminated as stereograph cards, the images achieved a three-dimensional effect when viewed through a stereoscope. The stereoscope combined the left and right views on the stereograph card into one image, which gives the illusion of depth.

Stereograph, 1000 Mile Tree, from A.J. Russell's 'Scenery of the Union Pacific'

Stereograph, 1000 Mile Tree, from A.J. Russell's 'Scenery of the Union Pacific'

Wiggle view of Stereograph, 1000 Mile Tree, from A.J. Russell's 'Scenery of the Union Pacific'  

A process called 'wiggle stereoscopy' can mimic the stereoscope's 3-d effect.


Waycars of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy RR / Daniel P. Holbrook & Steven D. Lorenz

The great machines : poems and songs of the American railroad / edited by Robert Hedin

Test and demonstration of automatic train control for San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District; final report

The Columbia-Philadelphia Rairoad and its successor / by William Hasell Wilson ; with introduction by Morris M. Green, Jr

Gambusia affinis

Locomotive panorama, by E.S. Cox

Note-book no. 4 of Lester F. Ward, July 1, 1890 - March 31, 1892

Souvenir and views of Union Pacific, "the Overland route," the world's pictorial line (en route to California)

Annual report of the Railroad Commissioners of the State of Connecticut, for ..

The B. & O. annual

Whistle (Image withheld, pending review)

Mount Hood Railroad : history of the first hundred years / [with updated information by Jack Mills]

The Third Avenue Railroad Depot, (painting)

Massachusetts Mohair Plush Company "Bi-Tone Friezette" upholstery fabric, 1914

The Great Lakes car ferries / George W. Hilton

Railway viaduct at Arnsburg, Germany : date of survey, August 1945 / Physical Damage Division

The Attempt to Fire the Pennsylvania Railroad Round-House in Pittsburgh, at Daybreak on Sunday, July 22, 1877, (painting)

Chicago by the book 101 publications that shaped the city and its image The Caxton Club ; introduction by Neil Harris

Jar (Image withheld, pending review)

Figure part/fragment (Image withheld, pending review)

Tripod vessel (Image withheld, pending review)

View (carefully painted from Nature,) of Part of the Valley of San Matteo, taken from Howard's Hill, (painting)

Les chemins de fer

Triops longicaudatus

Southern Railway equipment drawings & photographs / George Eichelberger

American railroads : decline and renaissance in the twentieth century / Robert E. Gallamore & John R. Meyer

A manual of the principles and practice of road-making: comprising the location, consruction, and improvement of roads (common, macadam, paved, plank, etc.) and rail-roads. By W. M. Gillespie

(Apothecary Dock Murals), (sculpture)

Andrews Railroad Hotel, Campus Martius, Detroit, (painting)

Tripod bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

Tripod vessel (Image withheld, pending review)

Whistle (Image withheld, pending review)

Jar (Image withheld, pending review)

Bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

Registers and Letters Received by the Commissioner, Letters Received, Entered in Register 14, G, Jan.–July 1869

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Registers and Letters Received by the Commissioner, Letters Received, Entered in Register 14, G, Jan.–July 1869
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United States Marshal 56 POSTPONED U.S. MARSHAL'S SALE. UNDER and by virtue of a writ of [?] facias is issued out of the Honorable the Fifth Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Georgia in favor of the plaintiffs, James Wilde, Jr., & Co., vs. Benjamin C. Franklin. I have levied upon, as the property of Benjamin C. Franklin one Let of Land, situated, lying and being in the old town of Brunswick, county of Glynn, State of Georgia, Known as Lot No. four hundred and fifty-five. bounded North by Lot four hundred and fifty-eight, South, by Lot Four hundred and fifty-six, East by Albany street and West by Wolf street. Also, Lot No. nine hundred and sixty, in new town of Brunswick, in said county and State bounded East by alley, West by B street, North by Lot No. nine hundred and sixty-on, and South by Lot No. nine hundred and fifty-nine, and will sell the same at public auction, at the Court House in the city of Savannah county of Chatham, and State of Georgia, on the FIRST TUESDAY IN MAY next, between the lawful hours of sale. Terms Cash. Property pointed out by Plaintiff's Attorney. Dated at Savannah, Georgia, March 2nd, 1869. WILLIAM G. DICKSON, 56-4t United States Marshal. POSTPONED U.S. MARSHAL'S SALE. U.S. MARSHAL'S OFFICE, SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA. THE UNITED STATES vs. 118 38-100 ACRES of Land, near Macon, Ga. By virtue of a Writ of xenditioni exponas, issued from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Georgia, in the above entitled cause, dated March 25, 1867, to me directed and delivered, I will sell at public auction, on the first TUESDAY in MAY next, within the lawful hours of sale, at the Court House in the city of Macon, Bibb county, Ga., a certain lot of land, containing one hundred and eighteen 38-100 acres, more or less, situate in the county of Bibb, State of Georgia, lying and being in the thirteenth District, and also in the Macon reserve, commencing at a point fifty feet from the Macon and Western Railroad, about two miles from Macon, which is marked on the spot by a stake planted by A Schatt. the Surveyor. Dated at Savannah, Ga., November 26th. 1868. WM. G. DICKSON, 56-4t United States Marshal. Postponed U.s Marshal's Sale U.S. Marshal's Office, Southern District of Georgia. The United States vs. 15 Acres of Land, near Macon, Ga. By virtue of a Writ of cenditioni exponas, issued from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Georgia, in the above entitled cause, dated March 25, 1867, to me directed and delivered, I will sell at public auction, on the first TUESDAY in MAY next, within the lawful hours of sale, at the Court House, in the city of Macon, Bibb county, Ga, a certain lot of land, containing fifteen (15 acres), more or less situate in the Thirteenth District, county of Bibb, State of Georgia. Dated at Savannah, Ga., November 26th, 1868. W.M.C DICKSON, United States Marshal

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