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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Jar (Image withheld, pending review)

[Trade catalogs from Fuller Mfg. Co.]

Scaphiopus holbrookii

Interurban to Milwaukee

Forever Railroad Stations: Tamaqua Station, Pennsylvania first day cover

Walker R. Smith Rural Maryland Photoprints

From horsecars to streamliners : an illustrated history of the St. Louis Car Company / by Alan R. Lind

The law relating to traffic on railways and canals, by Edward Boyle ... and Thomas Waghorn ..

Voices from this long brown land : oral recollections of Owens Valley lives and Manzanar pasts / [edited by] Jane Wehrey

Railway car shop maintenance, especially prepared for the education and training of railway carmen, by Walter Dunham and the staff of the American Technical Society in cooperation with a group of railway mechanical officials

The woman's hour : the last furious fight to win the vote / Elaine Weiss

The Pennsy in the steel city : 150 years of the Pennsylvania Railroad in Pittsburgh / by Ken Kobus and Jack Consoli

drawbar

Erie Railroad - Mountainville, (painting)

Railway Employee Pin

Design for a Mural, (painting)

A man (Theodore Roosevelt) is wearing riding clothes, seated in a chair holding a Panama hat on his left leg.

Theodore Roosevelt, 1858–1919

Unit freight carrier gives bin to bin delivery

Rigged Model Tug Boat, Brooklyn

84th New York Infantry Monument, (sculpture)

silhouette, tie

Traffic world

Coming up in Affiliateland in February 2018

Organization space : landscapes, highways, and houses in America / Keller Easterling

Photographs - Scenes of various places in Iowa and Louisiana

Locomotive Engine Safety Truck Company vs. the Pennsylvania Railroad Company : in equity : defendant's proofs on accounting [taken before] Robert N. Willson, esq., Master

Charlie Poole and the Highlanders [sound recording]

Railroad valuation and fair return; a study of the basis, rate, and related problems of fair return for American railroads, by Shao-Tseng Wu ... with a foreword by Emory R. Johnson ..

Bullinger's postal and shippers guide for the United States and Canada and Newfoundland

5 Tiao, Provincial Bank of Shantung, Shantung, China, 1925

Lithobates sylvaticus

Poem from Railroad Red Book Cartoons from various newspapers

Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Dance club

Dance club

Railroad Imitation

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