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Fergusson, J.C. (editor): THE ALTA CALIFORNIA PACIFIC COAST AND TRANS-CONTINENTAL RAIL-ROAD GUIDE. EARLY AND RARE TRAVEL GUIDE TO CALI...

New National Historic Landmark:  "Summit Camp (Placer and Nevada Cos., Calif.) is the archeological remains of the largest and longest...

Weekly Overland Edition of the San Francisco Bulletin Transcontinental Railroad Overland Edition San Francisco, July 2, 1869 Newspaper ...

From: "Joan Merriam" joan@joanmerriam.com My family's handed-down history says that my maternal grandmother, Frances Dorse...

From: "J Roche" jroche2018@outlook.com ... [In the photo below,] appears to be a Tunnel , easterly of Tunnel Nos. 4 and 39. ... w...

Palace Hotel , San Francisco – Overland RR Ticket Office [ Fares – Timetable ] Watkins Stereview #1665, detail of the Railroad Ticke...

THE HARTFORD DAILY TIMES Hartford, Connecticut, August 15, 1853, No. 3057. The Pacific Railroad. The Washington Union of Friday contain...

Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum A quarter century: 1999-2024 Stopped counting years ago after more than Five milli...

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New Golden Spike Monument: "A Golden nugget in the middle of Nebraska" by Penny Craft, © North Platte Bulletin, October 27, 2023....

From: "Timothy Roumph" tim699r@yahoo.com Today a friend and I climbed to the lookout on Red Mountain. We took an unmarked trail ...

National Archives: Pacific Railway Act An Act to Aid in the Construction of a Railroad and Telegraph Line from the Missouri River to the ...

From: "Riversong F Arms" riversong.farms@gmail.com We have a Winchester 1887 with CPRR markings in our reference collection on bo...

Other topics While 99% of our acclaimed huge website is about the first transcontinental railroad , including its railroad history with ...

"'Chinese Workers' Experience' exhibit sheds light on forgotten history" by SAKURA GRAY, © CBS News Sacramento, May 1...

Golden Spike Day, May 10, 1869. Happy Anniversary!

From: "John Sutton" suttonj@comcast.net CC: "Garrett Sutton" gsutton@sutlaw.com John L. Davie, who later became the lo...

From: "John Sutton" suttonj@comcast.net Subject: Historical Inquiry - CPRR President Isaac L. Requa My great, great grandfather ...

What is the unusual tall structure behind the 'Jupiter' locomotive (with Chinese ) in this photograph. Where is this? (Any other i...

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The Arizona spike from the May 10, 1869 ceremony at the completion of the transcontinent railroad is to be sold by the Museum of the City of...

"Where are the precious spikes of the Transcontinental Railroad?" by Matthew Nobert, California State Railroad Museum Federation, ...

Also see, E.O. Gibson's Wx4 Timetable web site . CPRR Timetable, June 18, 1868 Courtesy of E.O. Gibson's WX4 Timetable web site, Sh...

Tom Macaulay map, book, and reports collections at the Truckee-Donner Historical Society. The Overland Limited on the Cold Stream bridge...

"Trans-Mississippi Railroad Construction to 1900" by Robert Edgar Riegel, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1922. (Doctoral Thesis...

Three more unique Railroad Maps (click map images to enlarge): Map of Location of Central Pacific Railroad of California from Sacramento ...

"New sculpture at Golden Spike park honors unsung heroes of railroad" by Jeff DeMoss, © Tremonton Leader, July 13, 2022. (News A...

"Tracks: Images Documenting the Building of the Railroads" by Nick Fry, © Grolier Club, June 29, 2022. ( Virtual Lecture on Buil...

"Lewis Clement, founding chicken rancher in Castro Valley" On Jun 19, 2021 "Rick Kelly" cv4wheeler4@gmail.com wrote: ...

"Lightning Express goes coast-to-coast in 83 hours (in 1876!)" by Scott Mall, © Freightwaves, June 3, 2022. (History Article) ...

"Nevada's Central Pacific Railroad" by Dennis Cassinelli , © Nevada Appeal, June 1, 2022. (History Article) " ... Bei...

"The work of Chinese railroad workers endangered." by Raymond Douglas Chong, © AsAmNews, May 29, 2022. (News Article) " .....

[An embarassing shoddy journalistic eyewitness account of the future, evidently written ahead of time; Oops! – Cancelled! – So sorry!  Empha...

Subject: Central Pacific 173 - Coal or Wood? From: "Paul Quade" pquade@mac.com: Hi and thanks in advance for even looking at this...

How is the debate over a northern or southern route settled?

" ... Holabird’s February Reno Auction", © coinnews.net, March 11, 2022. (News Article) "Fans of Western Americana turned ...

"Awesome Railroad Thermite Welding Process You've Not Seen Before." [Click for Youtube videos.] More information about conti...

"Edward Harriman improved railroads while building a fortune" by Scott Mall, © FreightWaves Classics, February 22, 2022. (Histor...

"Southern Pacific history remembered", Classic Trains, © Kalmbach Media, February 4, 2022. (History Article) " ... Union P...

"Most Expensive Mansion in New Jersey ..." by Luna Fawkes, © The Proclaimer, Santa Clarita Valley, February 4, 2022. (News Artic...

"A Lesson from Railroad History" by Lawrence W. Reed, President Emeritus of the Foundation for Economic Education (lreed@fee.org),...

"Thieves in LA are looting freight trains filled with packages from UPS, FedEx and Amazon" by Matt McFarland and Cheri Mossburg, ©...

From: "Heidi Sproat" hsproat@truckeehistory.org Dear RR gents: I recently became aware of this Eadweard Muybridge Central Pacif...

"The Quest to Protect California’s Transcontinental Railroad Tunnels" by Shoshi Parks, © Smithsonian Magazine, January 12, 2022. ...

The Deseret News, Volume 18, Number 12, Salt Lake City, Wednesday, April 28, 1869. THE PACIFIC RAILROAD BILL The citizens of this territ...

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From: "John Lancaster" lancasterjk@me.com Hello—ran across Kevin Bunker’s name on your website, and sent him this query. Copying...

"A Hotel Pastry Chef Made a 32-Foot-Long Train Entirely From Chocolate ... his creation was directly inspired by two steam locomotives...