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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Rail-road Advocate. / Conducted by an Association of Gentlemen

Jar (Image withheld, pending review)

Dimensions and classification of locomotives of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway, Lake Erie & Western Railroad, Chicago, Indiana & Southern Railroad, Lake Erie, Alliance & Wheeling Railroad

Bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

Tripod bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

Bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

This business of war : recollections of a Civil War quartermaster / William G. Le Duc ; foreword by Adam E. Scher

An Act to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean : and to secure to the government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes : approved July 1, 1862 : and an act amendatory thereof, approved July 2, 1864

Jar (Image withheld, pending review)

Rail classics

Tripod bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

Tripod bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

Vessel fragment/potsherd with effigy/adorno (Image withheld, pending review)

Electric interlocking handbook by the Engineering staff of the General railway signal company, with an introduction by Wilmer W. Salmon. Henry M. Sperry, editor; Paul E. Carter, assistant editor; Sherman A. Benedict, illustrator

Thieves' road : the Black Hills betrayal and Custer's path to Little Bighorn / Terry Mort

Bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

Common standard specifications: structural steel for railway bridges, steel buildings and miscellaneous structures, highway bridges [by] Union Pacific Railroad Company [and others

The world of stereographs / William C. Darrah

Centenary history of the Liverpool & Manchester railway, to which is appended a transcript of the relevant portions of Rastrick's ʻRainhill' notebook, by C. F. Dendy Marshall

[Trade catalogs from William Robertson & Co.]

Footed vessel (Image withheld, pending review)

Tweezers (Image withheld, pending review)

Double bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

Jar (Image withheld, pending review)

[Trade catalogs from Dansk Lokomotivmands Forening]

[Trade catalogs from Feedrail Corp.]

silhouette, tie

Katy southwest : steam and diesel pictorial / John B. McCall and Frank A. Schultz III

Jar (Image withheld, pending review)

African influence on French colonial railroads in Senegal / by Paul E. Pheffer

[Trade catalogs from Day-Kincaid Stoker Co.]

Union Pacific CA-11 cabooses / by George R. Cockle

Tripod vessel (Image withheld, pending review)

The Festiniog Railway : a history of the narrow gauge railway connecting the slate quarries of Blaenau Festiniog with Portmadoc, North Wales / by James I. C. Boyd ; with drawings by J. M. Lloyd and R. E. Tustin

Signals, (sculpture)

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