Transcontinental Railroad

Operation

American History Museum

Standard Time

Freight

UPRR Bill of Landing

UPRR Bill, 1884

UPRR Stock killed, 1887

UPRR Livestock Bill of Landing, 1891

UPRR freight rates, 1869

Tourism

Nelsons Pictorial Guide Book, Union Pacific Railroad (click cover to see inside)

Nelsons Pictorial Guide Book, Central Pacific Railroad (click cover to see inside)

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.

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Central Pacific Telegraph Key

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Telegraph cross arm with ramshorn insulators, found near the Great Salt Lake

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Las Luchas populares en México en el siglo XIX / Leticia Reina (coordinadora) ... [et al.]

Cressy Homestead, Winhall Vt., West River R.R., (painting)

The Commuters, (painting)

Overground railroad : the green book and the roots of Black travel in America Candacy Taylor

Constitution and by-laws of the American Railway Master Mechanics' Association and proceedings of the meeting, held in Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 30th, and Oct. 1st, 1868 ; The second annual report of the American Railway Master Mechanics' Association, in convention at Pittsburgh, September 15th and 16th, 1869

Tramway motors: lessons from America. Reported after independent enquiry by the commissioner from the "Glasgow herald" staff

Railroads and the transformation of China / Elisabeth Köll

Manitoba Hall Owney tag

Affairs of southern railroads [microform] / Report presented to the House of Representatives during the second session 39th Congress, 1866-67

Meeting railroad requirements with Horton steel tanks

Freight Cars Under a Bridge, (painting)

The Franco-Texan Land Company, by Virginia H. Taylor

Modernizing a slave economy : the economic vision of the Confederate nation / John Majewski

I-beam railway bridge / War Department

Address of Mr. S.H. Goodin on the occasion of breaking ground on the Short Line Railroad to Dayton

Zum Fachwortschatz des frühen deutschen Eisenbahnwesens (ca. 1800-1860 : terminologische Untersuchungen und Wörterbuch / von Sabine Krüger

[Trade catalogs from Fairbanks, Morse & Co.]

Building Gotham : civic culture and public policy in New York City, 1898-1938 / Keith D. Revell

The Coronado Project archaeological investigations : studies along the Coal Haul Railroad Corridor / compiled by Sara T. Stebbins, Dana Hartman, Steven G. Dosh with contributions by Dana Hartman ... [et al.]

Los Angeles and the automobile : the making of the modern city / Scott L. Bottles

Railway machinists' miners' and foundry supplies

Plethodon shermani

Rockwell truck development for Bay Area Rapid Transit District; final report

Special resource study, management concepts / environmental assessment : Underground railroad

Yard Engine 603, (painting)

Inter Phone, Douglas DC-3

name stamp

Plethodon shermani

The Fall of the Village Bastille [painting] / (photographed by Peter A. Juley & Son)

The Black Valley Railroad by artist Emile Ackerman and lithographed by J. Mayer and Company

Triturus vulgaris

Enterprise denied origins of the decline of American railroads, 1897-1917

The iron horse in art : the railroad as it has been interpreted by artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries : an exhibition organized and shown at the Fort Worth Art Center, January 6-March 2, 1958 / with a foreword by Lucius Beebe

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Operation

Standard Time

Freight

Tourism

Telegraphy

Las Luchas populares en México en el siglo XIX / Leticia Reina (coordinadora) ... [et al.]

Cressy Homestead, Winhall Vt., West River R.R., (painting)

The Commuters, (painting)

Overground railroad : the green book and the roots of Black travel in America Candacy Taylor

Tramway motors: lessons from America. Reported after independent enquiry by the commissioner from the "Glasgow herald" staff

Railroads and the transformation of China / Elisabeth Köll

Manitoba Hall Owney tag

Affairs of southern railroads [microform] / Report presented to the House of Representatives during the second session 39th Congress, 1866-67

Meeting railroad requirements with Horton steel tanks

Freight Cars Under a Bridge, (painting)

The Franco-Texan Land Company, by Virginia H. Taylor

Modernizing a slave economy : the economic vision of the Confederate nation / John Majewski

I-beam railway bridge / War Department

Address of Mr. S.H. Goodin on the occasion of breaking ground on the Short Line Railroad to Dayton

Zum Fachwortschatz des frühen deutschen Eisenbahnwesens (ca. 1800-1860 : terminologische Untersuchungen und Wörterbuch / von Sabine Krüger

[Trade catalogs from Fairbanks, Morse & Co.]

Building Gotham : civic culture and public policy in New York City, 1898-1938 / Keith D. Revell

The Coronado Project archaeological investigations : studies along the Coal Haul Railroad Corridor / compiled by Sara T. Stebbins, Dana Hartman, Steven G. Dosh with contributions by Dana Hartman ... [et al.]

Los Angeles and the automobile : the making of the modern city / Scott L. Bottles

Railway machinists' miners' and foundry supplies

Plethodon shermani

Rockwell truck development for Bay Area Rapid Transit District; final report

Special resource study, management concepts / environmental assessment : Underground railroad

Yard Engine 603, (painting)

Inter Phone, Douglas DC-3

name stamp

Plethodon shermani

The Fall of the Village Bastille [painting] / (photographed by Peter A. Juley & Son)

The Black Valley Railroad by artist Emile Ackerman and lithographed by J. Mayer and Company

Triturus vulgaris

Enterprise denied origins of the decline of American railroads, 1897-1917

The iron horse in art : the railroad as it has been interpreted by artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries : an exhibition organized and shown at the Fort Worth Art Center, January 6-March 2, 1958 / with a foreword by Lucius Beebe

Plethodon shermani

Post, crown motif