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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Reminiscences of General Herman Haupt; giving hitherto unpublished official orders, personal narratives of important military operations, and interviews with President Lincoln, Secretary Stanton, General-in-chief Halleck, and with Generals McDowell, McClellan, Meade, Hancock, Burnside, and others in command of the armies in the field, and his impressions of these men. (Written by himself) With notes and a personal sketch by Frank Abial Flower. Illustrated from photographs of actual operations in the field

Union intermittent inductive automatic stop system

New railroads for all

Pioneer Zephyr

Scheme of North Dakota : St. Paul, Minn. standpoint / United States Post Office Department, Railway Mail Service, [Tenth Division] ; by direction of Deputy Second Assistant Postmaster General, Surface Postal Transport

Forever The Underground Railroad: William Still digital color postmark

Photographs, geological formations (62)

Facts and estimates relative to the business on the route of the contemplated Providence and Worcester rail road

John Bull

La mission Ozil = The Ozil mission / Hugues Fontaine

Desmognathus aeneus

Steam on the narrow gauge a collection by the Industrial Locomotive Society

Sensational religion : sensory cultures in material practice / edited by Sally M. Promey

Chelydra serpentina

The story of the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburgh Railroad, by Edward Hungerford

The Pullman exhibition train : World's Columbian Exposition centenary presentation set

Electric railway, electric lighting gas, and water power properties

London's underground

Sphagnum henryense Warnst.

Pacific Railroad Survey of the 47th and 49th Parallels

Pennsylvania Division Timetable No. 1

Bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

Railway age gazette

Tripod bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

Ballads-Rejects [sound recording]

Bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

Footed bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

[Trade catalogs from Cooper Heater Co.]

[Trade catalogs on track tools ... ]

Lithobates catesbeianus

Tripod vessel (Image withheld, pending review)

Bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

By streamliner, New York to Florida / Joseph M. Welsh

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

Daniel Willard rides the line; the story of a great railroad man, by Edward Hungerford

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