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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The Lackawanna Valley, (painting)

Tripod vessel (Image withheld, pending review)

[Trade catalogs from Standard Railroad Signal Co.]

Old Grand Central, (painting)

Sir Sandford Fleming's Pocketwatch

Northern Pacific views : the railroad photography of F. Jay Haynes, 1876-1905 / Edward W. Nolan

Harlem River, (painting)

Train Yard with Locomotive Belching Steam, (painting)

Seven days in Chicago; a complete guide to the street cards, omnibusses, railroads, notable buildings, union stock yards, churches, charitable institutions, etc., packing house, tunnels and water system, etc., together with a map and a historical sketch of the city and the great fire

Tale of the Lucin : a boat, a railroad, and the Great Salt Lake / David Peterson

Whetstone

Whetstone

The Beitbridge-Rutenga rail link / by B. G. Abrahams

Analysis of railroad operations, by Joseph L. White..

The Derby Horse Railway and the world's first electric freight locomotive / John R. Stevens

Alfred V. Friedrich luggage Owney tag

The tracks north : the railroad bracero program of World War II / Barbara A. Driscoll

Figure

James Bradley, (sculpture)

Railway centenary 1825-1925 : Supplement to the Locomotive, Railway Carriage and Wagon Review commemorating the opening of the first public railway & a souvenir of the Tenth International Railway Congress

Pipestem

RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE OPERATING DEPARTMENT W/INSERT NO. 64363 (REV. ED.)

From the Ohio to the Mississippi

Rails to the Blue Ridge, by Herbert H. Harwood, Jr

Gelatin silver print of Mississippi flood, showing train tracks in a rural area

Tripod bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

Pacific Coast official railway and steamship guide. ... A complete guide for the use of the traveling public, shippers, and railroad men. Compiled and edited by B.N. Rowley. [March, 1893 issue]

Early Train on the New York and Harlem Railroad, (painting)

Pottery smoother (Image withheld, pending review)

The underground rail road : a record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c., narrating the hardships, hair-breadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom, as related by themselves and others, or witnessed by the author; together with sketches of some of the largest stockholders and most liberal aiders and advisers of the road. / by William Still

Jar (Image withheld, pending review)

Madison, Indiana, Railroad Cut Looking Down, Winter, (painting)

PTSD : a short history / Allan V. Horwitz

The birds of North America : the descriptions of species based chiefly on the collections in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution / by Spencer F. Baird ; with the co-operation of John Cassin and George N. Lawrence ; with an atlas of one hundred plates

The Gulf, Mobile and Ohio; a railroad that had to expand or expire

Maul/Hammer head (Image withheld, pending review)

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