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Chinese immigrants working on the transcontinental railroadChinese laborers constructing the Central Pacific Railroad, 1860s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration
Workers cheering the first train over the mountains from CaliforniaSnowsheds protecting a transcontinental railroad train in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration
Transcontinental railroad in a Wyoming frontier townUnion Pacific Railroad at Sherman Station, Wyoming Territory, 1869. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration
Telegraph poles following the transcontinental railroadLinemen stringing telegraph wire beside the transcontinental railroad on the Great Plains, 1860s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration
Buffalo killed from a train on the Great PlainsPassengers and crew shooting buffalo from a train on the transcontinental railroad, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration
Building the transcontinental railroadImmigrants and other workers laying track for the transcontinental railroad across Nebraska, 1860s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration
Transcontinental railroad workers attacked by Native AmericansCheyenne Indians attacking workers building the transcontinental railroad on the Great Plains, 1867. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration
Transcontinental railroad across the Great PlainsTranscontinental railroad track to a station on the Great Plains, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration
Immigrants building the transcontinental railroadAsian and European immigrants working on the last mile of the transcontinental railroad, 1869. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration
Financiers of the transcontinental railroadRailroad kings Huntington, Stanford, Ames, Crocker, Dillon, and Moffat, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration
Dining car on the transcontinental railroadPalace Hotel dining car on the Union Pacific Railroad, 1869. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration
Transcontinental railroad in Nevada, 1869Central Pacific passenger train passing through a canyon in Nevada, 1869. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration
Laying railroad track across the Great PlainsWorkers laying track for the transcontinental railroad, 1860s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration
Freight train brakemen in a blizzardRailroad brakemen working atop boxcars in a snowstorm, 1890s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration
Cattle loaded on the railroad at Abilene, Kansas, 1870sLoading Texas cattle on the Union Pacific Railway at Abilene, Kansas, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration
Transcontinental railroad observed by Native AmericansNative Americans getting their first view of the transcontinental railroad, 1860s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration
Atchison & Pikes Peak Railroads first section of track, 1865First spike on the Atchison & Pikes Peak Railroad, 1865. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration
Prairie settlement along the transcontinental railroadRailroad stop near a new town on the Great Plains, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration
Work party on the transcontinental railroadTranscontinental railroad constructed across the western prairie, 1860s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration
Survey party for the transcontinental railroadRailroad surveyors camp in the Rocky Mountains, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration
Blizzard halts a transcontinental train in Utah, 1870sImmigrant workers digging out a snowbound Union Pacific train near Ogden, Utah, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration
Historic steam railroad in the RockiesSteam locomotive on the Cumbres & Toltec Railroad in the San Juan Mountains, Colorado/New Mexico border. Digital photograph
HSET2A-00104An underground village of dugouts doing business along the transcontinental railroad, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration
HSET2A-00045Settlers emigrating by train to the West, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration
Railroad blocked by snow in the RockiesDigging out a railroad snowed under in Colorado, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration
Railroad tunnel under constructionPortal of a railroad tunnel under construction, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration
Final spike in the northern transcontinental railroad, MontanaCompletion of the northern transcontinental railroad from Minnesota to the Pacific coast. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration
Digging a railroad tunnelWorkers building a railroad tunnel, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration
Mormon Trail pioneer grave by the transcontinental railroad, NebraskaGrave of Mormon Trail pioneer Rebecca Winters, next to the transcontinental railroad tracks, Nebraska (grave has since been moved). Photograph