Transcontinental Railroad Collection

Chinese immigrants working on the transcontinental railroad
Chinese laborers constructing the Central Pacific Railroad, 1860s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Workers cheering the first train over the mountains from California
Snowsheds protecting a transcontinental railroad train in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Transcontinental railroad in a Wyoming frontier town
Union Pacific Railroad at Sherman Station, Wyoming Territory, 1869. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Telegraph poles following the transcontinental railroad
Linemen 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 Plains
Passengers and crew shooting buffalo from a train on the transcontinental railroad, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Building the transcontinental railroad
Immigrants 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 Americans
Cheyenne 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 Plains
Transcontinental railroad track to a station on the Great Plains, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Immigrants building the transcontinental railroad
Asian 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 railroad
Railroad kings Huntington, Stanford, Ames, Crocker, Dillon, and Moffat, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Dining car on the transcontinental railroad
Palace Hotel dining car on the Union Pacific Railroad, 1869. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Transcontinental railroad in Nevada, 1869
Central Pacific passenger train passing through a canyon in Nevada, 1869. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Laying railroad track across the Great Plains
Workers laying track for the transcontinental railroad, 1860s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Freight train brakemen in a blizzard
Railroad brakemen working atop boxcars in a snowstorm, 1890s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Cattle loaded on the railroad at Abilene, Kansas, 1870s
Loading Texas cattle on the Union Pacific Railway at Abilene, Kansas, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Transcontinental railroad observed by Native Americans
Native 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, 1865
First spike on the Atchison & Pikes Peak Railroad, 1865. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Prairie settlement along the transcontinental railroad
Railroad stop near a new town on the Great Plains, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Work party on the transcontinental railroad
Transcontinental railroad constructed across the western prairie, 1860s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Survey party for the transcontinental railroad
Railroad surveyors camp in the Rocky Mountains, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Blizzard halts a transcontinental train in Utah, 1870s
Immigrant 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 Rockies
Steam locomotive on the Cumbres & Toltec Railroad in the San Juan Mountains, Colorado/New Mexico border. Digital photograph

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An underground village of dugouts doing business along the transcontinental railroad, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Settlers emigrating by train to the West, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Railroad blocked by snow in the Rockies
Digging out a railroad snowed under in Colorado, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Railroad tunnel under construction
Portal of a railroad tunnel under construction, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Final spike in the northern transcontinental railroad, Montana
Completion of the northern transcontinental railroad from Minnesota to the Pacific coast. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Digging a railroad tunnel
Workers building a railroad tunnel, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Mormon Trail pioneer grave by the transcontinental railroad, Nebraska
Grave of Mormon Trail pioneer Rebecca Winters, next to the transcontinental railroad tracks, Nebraska (grave has since been moved). Photograph

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