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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semaphore arm

Forever The Underground Railroad: Harriet Tubman digital color postmark

Cladonia grayi G. Merr. ex Sandst.

Plethodon shermani

Plethodon shermani

nut lock

William R. Lawrence Oral History Interview

The Great Columbia Plain : a historical geography, 1805-1910 / by D.W. Meinig

Tripod vessel (Image withheld, pending review)

Prionodactylus vertebralis

Wig Wag Signal Mechanism

Rethinking America's past voices from the Kinsey African American Art and History Collection edited by Tim Gruenewald

Heavy metal : the essential bibliography of American railroading / Brent Cassan

Scenic line of the world, by Gordon Chappell, and Black Canon revisited, by Cornelius W. Hauck; the story of America's only narrow gauge transcontinental

Cast iron chair with provision for expansion

locomotive builder's plate

tender, railroad, toy

The railroad problem and its solution, by John E. Muhlfeld

10 Dollars, Bank of Communications, Kalgan, China, 1912

lamp, top

patent model, locomotive spark arrester

Bifacial tool/projectile point (Image withheld, pending review)

British steam railcars [by] R. W. Rush

Bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

Colton's traveler and tourist's route-book through the United States of America and the Canadas : containing the routes and distances on the great lines of travel, by railroads, stage-roads, canals, lakes and rivers : accompanied with a large and accurate map

Bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

Results of comparative demonstration for determining the distinctive features of standard and improved air brake equipment for freight and passenger cars / conducted jointly by Southern Pacific Company, Pacific System and the Westinghouse Air Brake Co

A. Emigh and F.A. Stevens vs. the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company [microform] : in chancery : defendant's proofs on accounting, Robert L. Rogers, Esq., Master / for complainants, A. Emigh and F.A. Stevens ; for defendant, J.H.B. Latrobe

[Trade catalogs from Ribon & March]

Bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

Trophy, City of Medford, Amelia Earhart

Jar (Image withheld, pending review)

Jar (Image withheld, pending review)

Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad Company

Steel rail Lehigh Valley Railroad

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