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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Plethodon shermani

Chelsea Keramic Art Works Pitcher

Mr. J. Proctor, in his Great Original Character of the Jibbenainosay in "Nick of the Woods."

B & O power; steam, diesel, and electric power of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 1829-1964, by Lawrence W. Sagle. Captions by L. Sagle and A. Staufer. Edited by A. Staufer

Mulhouse et la conquète du rail : 150e anniversaire de la ligne Mulhouse-Thann, 1839-1989

Astrocoenia decaturensis

Bifacial tool/projectile point

Cache blade/Implement blank and Robbins point

Harriet Tubman - Thomas Garrett - The Underground Railroad, (sculpture)

Trainwreck of the Paris-Versailles Railroad, (painting)

National Railroad Museum : highlight and data catalog

VIA ULSTER & DELAWARE RAILROAD..

Pin, Lapel, Pilot's 10 Year Service, Transcontinental & Western Air Inc. (TWA)

Operation of railroads : maintenance of way and structures / War Department

Regulation of railways including a discussion of government ownership versus government control by Samuel O. Dunn

Pincushion

Anolis auratus

Pristimantis curtipes

[Trade catalogs on automatic home heating and air conditioning plants, air-conditioning furnace, oil burners; engines, tie cutters ... ]

Whistle (Image withheld, pending review)

Anacostia B & O Freight Station railroad sign

An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and for prior years, and for other purposes

New subways for New York: the Dual system of rapid transit [by] Public Service Commission for First District

Freight classification yards, design and operation Bulletin no. 155

Jar (Image withheld, pending review)

Badge, Cap, Mechanic, Transcontinental & Western Air Inc. (TWA)

Confessions of a railroad signalman / by J. O. Fagan ; with illustrations

Jar (Image withheld, pending review)

Bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

Brig. General Eugene A. Carr, (sculpture)

[Trade catalogs from Magnetic Signal Co.]

[Trade catalogs on screws (wood screws, machine screws, dowel screws, capped screws, patent screws, railroad screws, sheet metal screws, Phillips screws); bolts (stove bolts, sink bolts, elevator bolts, tire bolts); stove rods, tapped nuts, burrs, rivets, wire, nails, escutcheon nails, drill bits, drivers, utility kits ... ]

Cladonia bacillaris (Ach.) Nyl.

I've Got You; Railroad Boomer

[Trade catalogs from Dueber-Hampden Watch Works]

Complimentary entertainments given to the American Master Mechanics Association at their third annual convention, Sept. 14th, 15th, 16th, & 17th, 1870

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