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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Lothar Baumgarten : carbon

Electric railway engineering. By Edward Trevert [pseud.] Embracing practical hints upon power house dynamo, motor and line construction for the use of students

alarm, low water

The Transcontinental Railroad Turns 150!

The cable cars of San Francisco. Photos. by Phil Palmer. Text by Mike Palmer

Pennsylvania Railroad rolling stock 1860-1968 / by the staff of PC railroader magazine

Walter Damrosch [painting] / (photographed by Peter A. Juley & Son)

locomotive builder's plate

The Pacific Railroad : a defense against its enemies, with report of the Supervisors of Placer County, and report of Mr. Montanya, made to the Supervisors of the city and county of San Francisco

The National Railway Museum

Royal Blue Line / Herbert H. Harwood, Jr

Edward Hines, millionaire lumber dealer and wife

Vina Ranch Panorama: Red Winery, Water Tower, Railroad Tracks, (painting)

Steel T-rail

Ride the big red cars; how trolleys helped build Southern California

NER CONVENTION PLAINVIEW, N.Y. OCT. 8-10, 1982

toy, train

Switchback, (sculpture)

Annual report / Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company

Automatic train control system

Right-of-way; a guide to abandoned railroads in the United States

bell

Everniastrum sorocheilum (Vain.) Hale ex Sipman

toy, engine and tender

Album of Baltimore & Ohio R.R. Scenery

Railway age gazette

Making freedom : the Underground Railroad and the politics of slavery / R.J.M. Blackett

Steel wheels rolling : a personal journey of railroad photography / J. Parker Lamb

The history of Baltimore's streetcars / Michael R. Farrell ; with additional material by Herbert H. Harwood, Jr. and Andrew S. Blumberg

Jesse James : last rebel of the Civil War / T.J. Stiles

A gazetteer of the state of New-York : comprising its topography, geology, mineralogical resources, civil divisions, canals, railroads and public institutions, together with general statistics, the whole alphabetically arranged : also, statistical tables, including the census of 1840, and tables of distances : with a new township map of the state, engraved on steel

Lines West : a brief history / Phillip C. Blakeslee

The challenge of the avant-garde / edited by Paul Wood

The street railway system of Philadelphia; its history and present condition, by Frederic W. Spiers ..

Forty-four tons of railroad motive power - the lightweight champion GEA-3958

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