Transcontinental Railroad

Operation

American History Museum

Standard Time

Freight

UPRR Bill of Landing

UPRR Bill, 1884

UPRR Stock killed, 1887

UPRR Livestock Bill of Landing, 1891

UPRR freight rates, 1869

Tourism

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

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

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.

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Central Pacific Telegraph Key

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

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[Trade catalogs on remover for paint, varnish, lacquer, primer, and shellac; floor finish; liquid brush cleaner; railway and bus cleaning products: bus polish, tar and road scum remover, metal polish, ONC emulsion, car cleaner and brushes, varnish renovator, polishing cream, curtain cleaner, Curtain Re-Dye, Curtain Glaze, Canescrubb, Kanebrite, Cane Glaze, Plush Re-Dye, Dry Gloss; automobile polish and polishing wax, Auto Top Dressing, Touch-Up Black, and rubbing compound]

Boll Weevil; recollections of the Trinity & Brazos valley railway, by J. L. Allhands

Car names and consists / edited by Robert J. Wagner

Report on freight car pooling, with plan for proposed box car pool. Prepared by Section of car pooling

The Pacific Railroad--open. How to go: what to see. Guide for travel to and through Western America

locomotive builder's plate

The New York elevated / Robert C. Reed

Buildings and structures of American railroads : a reference book for railroad managers, superintendents, master mechanics, engineers, architects, and students / by Walter G. Berg

Guide to records in the National Archives of the United States relating to American Indians / compiled by Edward E. Hill

Railroad map of Pennsylvania. Drawn and compiled by J. Sutton Wall

Instruction paper

Vessel (Image withheld, pending review)

Jar (Image withheld, pending review)

Capturing a locomotive: a history of secret service in the late war. By Rev. William Pittenger

Here and there in New England and Canada : among the mountains / by M.F. Sweetser

Forty years on the rail. By Charles B. George

Electric railway and lighting properties

Tripod vessel (Image withheld, pending review)

From mission to microchip : a history of the California labor movement / Fred B. Glass

Two Ohio tractions / edited by Richard and Birdella Wagner

Jeffrey mine locomotives

Cliff Merritt Sets the Record Straight

The story of the brake shoe

Russian steam locomotives / [by] H. M. Le Fleming & J. H. Price

Die finnischen Eisenbahnen in den militärischen und politischen Plänen Russlands vor dem ersten Weltkrieg

[Trade card featuring three women and a child watching a man on Rotary Shuttle bicycle carrying a sewing machine] : Bike rider is saying 2500 turns in a minute - clear the track. Standard Sewing Machine Company

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Operation

Standard Time

Freight

Tourism

Telegraphy

Boll Weevil; recollections of the Trinity & Brazos valley railway, by J. L. Allhands

Car names and consists / edited by Robert J. Wagner

Report on freight car pooling, with plan for proposed box car pool. Prepared by Section of car pooling

The Pacific Railroad--open. How to go: what to see. Guide for travel to and through Western America

locomotive builder's plate

The New York elevated / Robert C. Reed

Buildings and structures of American railroads : a reference book for railroad managers, superintendents, master mechanics, engineers, architects, and students / by Walter G. Berg

Guide to records in the National Archives of the United States relating to American Indians / compiled by Edward E. Hill

Railroad map of Pennsylvania. Drawn and compiled by J. Sutton Wall

Instruction paper

Vessel (Image withheld, pending review)

Jar (Image withheld, pending review)

Capturing a locomotive: a history of secret service in the late war. By Rev. William Pittenger

Here and there in New England and Canada : among the mountains / by M.F. Sweetser

Forty years on the rail. By Charles B. George

Electric railway and lighting properties

Tripod vessel (Image withheld, pending review)

From mission to microchip : a history of the California labor movement / Fred B. Glass

Two Ohio tractions / edited by Richard and Birdella Wagner

Jeffrey mine locomotives

Cliff Merritt Sets the Record Straight

The story of the brake shoe

Russian steam locomotives / [by] H. M. Le Fleming & J. H. Price

Die finnischen Eisenbahnen in den militärischen und politischen Plänen Russlands vor dem ersten Weltkrieg

[Trade card featuring three women and a child watching a man on Rotary Shuttle bicycle carrying a sewing machine] : Bike rider is saying 2500 turns in a minute - clear the track. Standard Sewing Machine Company

Profile of Middle and Eastern Divisions, Erie & New England Railroad

Festival of American Folklife : October 5-10, 1977 / presented by Smithsonian Institution in cooperation with the National Park Service

Wonderland Express at the Chicago Botanic Garden

The Dooleys of Richmond : an Irish immigrant family in the old and new South / Mary Lynn Bayliss

Pergola, (sculpture)

Railroad Bill [sound recording]

Landscape Painting, (painting)

Who made all our streetcars go? The story of rail transit in Baltimore, by Michael R. Farrell. Cartography by Charles W. Whittle

Making Indian law : the Hualapai land case and the birth of ethnohistory / Christian W. McMillen