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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Fishing line sinker or net weight/sinker (Image withheld, pending review)

Blockade running during the Civil War and the effect of land and water transportation on the Confederacy, by Francis B.C. Bradlee ..

Tripod vessel (Image withheld, pending review)

Field notes and diary, Audubon and Shelby counties, Iowa, 1912, 1913

Cable railways of Chicago / George W. Hilton

Railroad Employment, (sculpture)

Pestle (Image withheld, pending review)

Tripod vessel (Image withheld, pending review)

The great Union Pacific Railroad excursion to the hundredth meridian: from New York to Platte City ... Prepared at the request of the excursionists

A century of de luxe railway cars in Canada

Future fuels and engines for railroad locomotives / S.G. Liddle ... [et al.]

The world's railways and how they work

Jar (Image withheld, pending review)

Railroad curves and earthwork. By C.F. Allen ..

Mitchell's traveller's guide through the United States : containing the principal cities, towns, &c., alphabetically arranged : together with the stage, steam-boat, canal, and railroad routes, with the distances, in miles, from place to place : illustrated by an accurate map of the United States

Horizon--Seven Ranges, (sculpture)

Tripod vessel (Image withheld, pending review)

ashtray

Early opposition to the steam railroad, by Thurman W. Van Metre ..

Curatorial Records, 1946-2001

Gambelia wislizenii

Final research report : the operation of the Underground Railroad in Washington, D.C., c. 1800-1860 / by Hilary Russell

Burlington West; a colonization history of the Burlington railroad, by Richard C. Overton

Black Railroad Workers' Boarding House, White City Park, (painting)

Plethodon shermani

Plethodon shermani

Harriet Tubman, (sculpture)

Behind Montparnasse train station in Paris, (painting)

The Pennsylvania Railroad to the World's Fair, St. Louis, Mo. : Descriptive notes, list of hotels, rates of fare, schedule of trains, and general information ..

Railroad Bridge, (painting)

Union Prisoners at Salisbury, N.C.

The Procession, (sculpture)

Auburn-Lewiston Bridge, (painting)

Navajo spoons : Indian artistry and the souvenir trade, 1880s-1940s / by Cindra Kline ; photography by Kyle A. Castle and Blair Clark

Our iron roads: their history, construction and administration. By Frederick S. Williams ..

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