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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Forever Railroad Stations: Point of Rocks Station, Maryland first day cover

Batrachoseps pacificus

Food grater

Food grater

[Trade catalogs from Pullman Co.]

railroad cap

Mill Creek Arch

Sound effects: Train on Way to Atlantic City [sound recording]

[Trade catalogs from Butterley Co. Ltd.]

Labor [photomechanical print]

1961 Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen demonstration locomotive model

Railroad Bill; Whoa Mule

Chelsea Keramic Art Works Vase

Thamnophis radix

hook, berth curtain

Erythrolamprus mimus

Archeological investigations at Steamtown National Historic Site, Scranton, Pennsylvania / by Henry M.R. Holt and Michael L. Alterman ; prepared by the Cultural Resource Group, Louis Berger & Associates

Railroad engineers & airplane pilots, what do they do? Pictures by Leonard Kessler

Anolis auratus

Public works of Great Britain : consisting of railways, rails, chairs, blocks, cuttings, embankments, tunnels, oblique arches, viaducts, bridges, stations, locomotive engines, &c. : cast iron bridges, iron and gas works, canals, lock gates, centering, masonry and brick work for canal tunnels, canal boats, the London and Liverpool docks, plans and dimensions, dock gates, walls, quays and their masonry, mooring chains, plan of the harbour and port of London, and other important engineering works, with descriptions and specifications : the whole rendered of the utmost utility to the civil engineer, to the nobility and gentry, as monuments of the useful arts in this country and as examples to the foreign engineer / edited by F.W. Simms, C.E. ; 153 plates

Tripod bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

Bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

Footed bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

Artur Bodanzky [sculpture] / (photographed by Peter A. Juley & Son)

Capital Traction Company #1

Stylophora imperatoris

Bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

[Trade catalogs from Parr Paint & Color Co.]

Jar (Image withheld, pending review)

[Trade catalogs from Continental Hall Signal Co.]

One Oil Painting, Prison on Fire, (painting)

[Trade catalogs from Gardner & Co.]

Baltimore and Ohio railroad corporate histories ... data as of June 30, 1918, unless otherwise stated

Trichostomum brachydontium Bruch

Reports of explorations and surveys to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi river to the Pacific ocean Made under the direction of the secretary of war, in 1853-[6]

Hippocrene guide to the underground railroad / Charles L. Blockson

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