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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Whistle (Image withheld, pending review)

Jar (Image withheld, pending review)

Jar (Image withheld, pending review)

Triorla maculatus

lantern, railroad

Jar (Image withheld, pending review)

COMBINATION FOLDER: BOSTON AND NEW ENGLAND POINTS FROM NEW YORK OCTOBER 3, 1909

Jar (Image withheld, pending review)

[Trade catalogs from Safety Car Heating and Lighting Co.]

silhouette, tie

Statement of the present condition of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co. and the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Co with plan for their financial re-organization Franklin B. Gowen

Scene on the Pennsylvania Railroad, (painting)

Jar (Image withheld, pending review)

Jar (Image withheld, pending review)

Rock Island, Illinois Owney tag

Tripod bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

[Geological reports] : explorations and surveys for a railroad route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean / War Department

[Trade catalogs from Locomotive Finished Material Co., The]

San Diego & Arizona Railway main line route passenger service : the agony and the odyssey / by John M. Fiscella

Julia Wades in the Water

Electric railways of Indiana

Figure (Image withheld, pending review)

George L. Beam and the Denver & Rio Grande. Volume 1 / by Jackson C. Thode

Opinion relating to and confirmatory of the right of the Central Branch Union Pacific Railroad Company to continue and extend its road to the Main Trunk (the Union Pacific R.R.) and for and in aid of the construction thereof to receive lands and bonds from the United States

[Trade catalogs from S.A. Woods Machine Co.]

God's bits of wood / Sembene Ousmane ; translated by Francis Price

Chicago Railroad Fair official guide book : and program for the pageant "Wheels a-rolling."

All stations west; the story of the Sydney-Perth standard gauge railway, by G. H. Fearnside

Report of a geological reconnaissance in California: made in connection with the expedition to survey routes in California, to connect with the surveys of routes for a railroad from the MississippiRiver to the Pacific Ocean, under the command of Lieut. R.S. Williamson, Corps Top. Eng'rs, in 1853 . By William P. Blake ... With an appendix containing descriptions of portions of the collection, by Prof. Louis Agassiz, Aug. A. Gould, M.D., Prof. J.W. Bailey, T.A. Conrad, Prof. John Torrey, Prof.Geo. C. Schaeffer, J.D. Easter, PH. D

Two great scouts and their Pawnee battalion : the experiences of Frank J. North and Luther H. North, pioneers in the great West, 1856-1882, and their defence of the building of the Union Pacific Railroad / by George Bird Grinnell

American steam locomotives : design and development, 1880-1960 / William L. Withuhn

Tripod vessel (Image withheld, pending review)

Capital Transit : Washington's street cars : the final era 1933-1962 / Peter C. Kohler

Men logging

The archeology of the Western Pacific Railroad relocation, Oroville project, Butte County, California, by William H. Olsen and Francis A. Riddell

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