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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Eugenuris talkeetnaeuris

The Powder Puff Derby of 1929 : the first all women's transcontinental air race / by Gene Nora Jessen

The depletion myth a history of railroad use of timber [by] Sherry H. Olson

The underground railroad : a novel / Colson Whitehead

Paper abstracts / SIA 96

Virginia & Truckee Railroad Company locomotive no. 12 "Genoa" / [Stephen E. Drew, William A. Oden]

The American West in the nineteenth century : 255 illustrations from "Harper's weekly" and other contemporary sources / [edited by] John Grafton

Scene at the York Railroad Station, on the arrival of Mr. Buchanan

Report upon the plan of construction of several of the principal rail roads in the northern and middle states, and upon a railway structure for a new track on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road, by J. Knight, chief engineer, and Benj. H. Latrobe ..

Cylinder seal/Sello (Image withheld, pending review)

railroad map of Spain and Portugal

Bottle, Syrup, Vin Fiz

Titus Moody Presents the DDS of Binaural [sound recording]

100 years of steam locomotives. Contributing editors: Paul Needham, C.L. Combes [and] C.A. Phelps

Compilation of A. A. Hart's views of the C.P.R.R. / annotated and published 1997 by the Institute for Photographic Research

Cultures and caricatures of British imperial aviation : passengers, pilots, publicity / Gordon Pirie

Southern Pacific passenger cars [edited by] Southern Pacific Historical and Technical Society

Cape Cod Central Engine “The Highland Light”

First transcontinental flight / by Charles S. Wiggin; edited and with an introd. by Michael O'Hare

Buffalo Soldier Uniform Coat

Bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

Tripod vessel (Image withheld, pending review)

Tripod bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

Tripod bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

Phyllodoce (Anaitides) arenae

Copy of Daguerreotype of Express Train on Western Railroad - Afternoon Train Between Albany and Springfield

[Trade catalogs from Liberty Mfg. Co.]

Jar (Image withheld, pending review)

Vessel (Image withheld, pending review)

Jar (Image withheld, pending review)

Figure part/fragment (Image withheld, pending review)

Tripod bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

Railroad Hand-Signal Lantern, ca. 1945

Chelydra serpentina

Micropterus salmoides

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