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"A light car, drawn by a single horse, gallops up to the front with its load of rails.  Two men seize the end of a rail and start forward, the rest of the gang taking hold by twos, until it is clear of the car.  They come forward at a run.  At the word of command the rail is dropped in its place, right side up with care, while the same process goes on at the other side of the car.  Less than thirty seconds to a rail for each gang, and so four rails go down to the minute ... close behind the first gang come the gaugers, spikers, and bolters, and a lively time they make of it.  It is a grand 'anvil chorus' ... It is played in triple time, 3 strokes to the spike.  There are 10 spikes to a rail, 400 rails to a mile, 1,800 miles to San Francisco — 21,000,000 times those sledges to be swung: 21,000,000 times are they to come down with their sharp punctuation before the great work of modern America is complete." Completion of the Pacific Railroad, May 10, 1869 Harper's Weekly engraving based on the Charles R. Savage photograph.

Joining of the Rails, May 10, 1869, Promontory, Utah (Detail of Savage and Ottinger Stereoview, "Engineers shaking hands.") Chief Engineers for CPRR (Samuel S. Montague) and UPRR (Grenville M. Dodge).  Courtesy David Wood. Also see the A.J. Russell image.

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Did you know that punched railroad tickets were the forerunners of computers? (Logo from CPRR Ticket)

"At Sacramento  ... The Central Pacific company had thirty locomotives gayly decked ranged on the city front, and at the signal of a gun announcing the driving of the last spike on the road the locomotives opened a chorus of whistles, and all the bells and steam whistles in the city joined."

The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California was organized on June 28, 1861 by a group of Sacramento merchants known later as the "Big Four" (Collis P. Huntington, [Gov.] Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker);

they are best remembered for having built the western portion of the first transcontinental railroad ("the Pacific Railroad") through California, Nevada, and Utah.  A.J. Russell View at Promontory Summit. Courtesy National Park Service. (Right)

A practical mountain route for the rail line was first conceived and surveyed by Dutch Flat, California gold prospector and drugstore owner Dr. Daniel W. Strong and engineer, Theodore Dehone Judah, who obtained the financial backing of the California group and won federal support in the form of the Pacific Railroad Act, signed in 1862 by former railroad lawyer Abraham Lincoln.  C.E. Watkins View at Cape Horn. Courtesy Royal Geographical Society. (Left) [More Watkins]

Government bonds, required to be repaid after completion of construction, were issued to the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroad Companies as they completed construction milestones, and they were granted sizable parcels of land along the entire length of the track as an added incentive, placing the CPRR and UPRR in competition — a race to the finish at an undetermined meeting point.

The Central Pacific began laying track eastward from Sacramento, California in 1863, and the Union Pacific started laying track westward from Omaha, Nebraska, two years later in July, 1865.  To meet its manpower needs, the Central Pacific hired thousands of Chinese laborers, including many recruited from farms in Canton.  The crew had the formidable task of laying the track crossing California's rugged Sierra Nevada mountain range and had to blast fifteen tunnels to accomplish this.  The crew of the Union Pacific, which was composed largely of Irish immigrants and Civil War veterans, had to contend with Indian attacks and the Rocky Mountains.  On May 10, 1869, after completing 1,776 miles, 4,814 feet (2,859.66 km) of new track, the two rail lines met at Promontory Summit, Utah.
Courtesy Martin Gregor and Bruce C. Cooper.

Locomotive on Turntable
(detail of A. A. Hart Stereograph #139)

Great great great grandpa, Lewis Metzler Clement (1837-1914) was the First Assistant Chief Engineer, later the Acting Chief Engineer,  and also was the Chief Locating Engineer  of the Central Pacific Railroad!
As second in command of the most formidable engineering project of the 19th century, Lewis M. Clement was in charge of locating and constructing the first transcontinental railroad over California's Sierra Nevada Mountains, including blasting the Summit Tunnel through 1,660 feet of solid granite using black power, and building 40 miles of Snowsheds to keep the track clear during winter blizzards.	Tunnel No. 15 Muybridge Stereoview

Lewis Metzler Clement was the engineer in direct charge of the final location, design and construction of the CPRR Division between Colfax and Truckee (miles 75 to 120), by far the most difficult section of the entire Pacific Railroad which included Cape Horn, the Sierra tunnels, and the snowsheds. 

In addition he had similar charge of the final 200 miles of the line across Nevada and Utah ending at Promontory Summit.  In February, 1869, Clement was appointed as one of four members of the Special U.S. Pacific Railroad Commission to inspect and approve the railroad’s location and construction and help to determine the very sticky issue of where the CPRR and UPRR would finally meet.  Once the line opened in 1869 Clement added the duties of CPRR Superintendent of Track, a position he held until 1881.

L. M. Clement went on to design and build (also using Chinese laborers) the Southern Pacific Railroad line from Sacramento to Los Angeles via the San Joaquin Valley, and also worked on many urban and cable car lines.  Among his works in the area was the design of the cable car turntable at the foot of Market Street in San Francisco.  Leland Stanford also sought Clement's help to set up the Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Departments at Stanford University.
 

Lewis M. Clement  First Assistant Chief Engineer

(Logo from CPRR Bank Check)

Theodore D. Judah Chief Engineer (Watkins Portrait)

Samuel S. Montague Chief Engineer

In an 1887 statement submitted to the U.S. Pacific Railway Commission, Lewis M. Clement summarized the challenges and great obstacles — both physical and financial — which had to be overcome to build the CPRR:

"At the beginning of the construction, the company, knowing the political and commercial necessities demanding the rapid completion of the railroad, determined that nothing which was in their power to prevent should for a single day arrest its progress.

"With this determination in view all energies were bent, fully realizing the physical obstacles and financial difficulties to be overcome.

"The financial difficulties were not lessened by the opinions circulated to the effect that the obstacles were insurmountable; that the railroads then constructed in Europe were as bagatelles compared with the difficulties to be met in constructing the Central Pacific Railroad, and failure was clearly written on the rocky sides of the cañons and the bold granite walls of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

"Not only was it impossible to construct a railroad across the Sierras via Donner Pass, but owing to the great depth of snow, some years reaching an aggregate fall of nearly 50 feet, would be impracticable to operate, and if built must be closed to traffic in the winter months, which would have been the case had not the road been protected at great cost by snow sheds.

"Against these utterances from men of railroad experience the company had to battle in financial circles, forcing them to show that they were not attempting an impossibility, though always realizing the great difficulties."

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Read about Transcontinental Railroad History: INTRODUCTION "Eastward to Promontory:  A Brief History of the CPRR Construction." New! "Riding the Transcontinental Rails: Overland Travel on the Pacific Railroad - Introduction." "The Story of the Central Pacific. The Rise of the Big Four: Huntington, Stanford, Crocker, and Hopkins." by W. F. Bailey The Pacific Monthly, January, 1908. "Building the Central Pacific Railroad—A Narrative History."14 "The First Transcontinental Railroad." (Part 1) - (Part II)  by Elizabeth Gibson.5 "American Experience: Transcontinental Railroad."22 "Explore & Learn: The Transcontinental Railroad."36 New! "The Transcontinental Railroad: The Pathway that United a Nation." by Brendan Nee and Preston Theler "Historical Overview: Building a Road; Financing; Construction; Post Construction; Sources." Courtesy UPRR. "Railroads Shipped by Sea."  by Wendell W. Huffman.  Railroad History, 1999.25 "When Railroads Were New: The First Transcontinental Railroad."  by C.F. Carter, 1910. "Railroad Maps of the United States."  by A.M. Modelski, 1975.3 New! "The Workmen of the Pacific Railway." by John Sutton, NPS, 1978. "Transcontinental Railroad: Different Faces Behind 'The Work of the Age'." by Dawn Emord & David Bushong9 "Steel Rails and Iron Horses." Bureau of Land Management, 1995. "Virtual Field Trip: Promontory, Utah Golden Spike National Historic Site." by Tom Allen, Old Dominion University. "The West and the Railroads." by Sidney Dillon, 1891.1 New! "History of California. Book IV, Ch. V-VI. Pacific Railroads." by Theodore Henry Hittell. N.J. Stone & Co., 1897.37 "Building the Union Pacific" (Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)20 "People: Asa Whitney (1791-1874); CPRR: Theodore Judah (1826-1863), Big Five– Leland Stanford (1824-1893), Collis P. Huntington (1821-1900), Mark Hopkins (1813-1878), Charles Crocker (1822-1885), Edwin Bryant Crocker (1818-1875); UPRR: Thomas Clark Durant (1820-1885), Oakes Ames (1804-1873), Grenville Dodge (1831-1916), Jack Casement (1829-1909) and Frances Jennings Casement (1840-1928)."22 "Railroads America." 1927. New! "The Last Spike is Driven." Utah Historical Quarterly, 37(1), Winter 1969. New! "Epic of the Overland." by Robert Lardin Fulton. San Francisco, A. M. Robertson, 1924. "Railroad Stories," a Pinnacle Webs fiction anthology – railroad literature of a past era. President Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address Powerpoint Presentation," 11/19/1863. "The History of the Universe in 200 Words or Less." by Eric Schulman. PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE 19th CENTURY and STEREOSCOPY "The Railroad Photographs of Alfred A. Hart, Artist," by Mead B. Kibbey. California State Library Foundation, 1995. "Alfred Hart: Photographer of the Central Pacific Railroad." by Glenn Willumson. History of Photography, 1988. "Stereoviews of Carleton Watkins." Courtesy of Steve Heselton. New! "The Great West Illustrated in a series of photographic views across the continent taken along the line of the Union Pacific Railroad west from Omaha, Nebraska." by A.J. Russell, 1869.35 "Contributions to the Physiology of Vision ... Binocular Vision." by Charles Wheatstone, 1838.29 "The Silver Sunbeam: ... Photographic ... Collodion, Albumen ... Stereography." 1864. "The Eye and the Camera."  Harper's Monthly, September, 1869.1 "Nineteenth Century Photography: Stereo and Albumen Prints." Scovill, 1888. "Wet Plate Photography." PBS, The American Experience. New! "Oliver Wendell Holmes – His pioneer Stereoscope and the later Industry." by George E. Hamilton, Newcomen Society, 1949. "Double Exposure: A Visual History of the Stereoscope." by Del Phillips. "Albumen Photographs:  history, science and preservation." Stanford University. Alfred A. Hart Biography from Mary Blessing's essay, "Alfred A. Hart: Frontier Photographer," 1979.24 "Stereo Photography." by Fritz G. Waack, 1985.29 New! "Photographs from the 19th Century: A Process Identification Guide." by William E. Leyshon, 2001. NATIONAL STEREOSCOPIC ASSOCIATION — STEREO WORLD "Alfred A. Hart and the Illustrated Traveler's Map of the Central Pacific Railroad." by Peter E. Palmquist, 1980. Review of "Alfred A. Hart: Photographer of the Transcontinental Railroad." Thesis by Glenn G. Willumson, 1984. "J.J. Reilly Photographer — Views of American Scenery."  by Paul Hickman and Peter Palmquist, 1985. "Carbutt and the Union Pacific's Grand Excursion to the 100th Meridian." by William Brey, 1980. "Carleton E. Watkins." by Eric Hill, 1977. "Charles Weitfle Colorado Entrepreneur." by Thomas Waldsmith, 1978. PLANS FOR A RAILROAD TO THE PACIFIC New! "Something New" by S.W. Dexter. The [Ann Arbor] Emigrant, Washtenaw County, Michigan, February 8, 1832. Courtesy Larry Mullaly. "Dr. Hartwell Carver's Proposal to Build a Railroad from Lake Michigan to the Pacific Ocean." "Memorial of Asa Whitney Praying for a Grant of Land to Enable Him to Construct a Railroad from Lake Michigan to the Pacific Ocean." 1848. "Rail-Road to the Pacific." The United States Democratic Review. 1848.1 "Memorial of the Legislature of Missouri to Congress on the Central Pacific Railroad," 1849. "Memorial of the Memphis Convention ..." House of Representatives, Committee on Naval Affairs, 1850. "Memorial of Robert Mills, Proposing a Plan for a Railroad and Telegraphic Communication with the Pacific Ocean." U.S. Senate, 1852. "The Pacific Railroad and How it is to be Built."  Putnam's Magazine, November, 1853.1 "Report of the House Select Committee on the Pacific Railroad and Telegraph," 1856. "A Practical Plan for Building the Pacific Railroad." By T.D. Judah, 1857. Courtesy Virtual Museum of San Francisco. "The Origin of the Idea [for a Pacific Railroad]." "Overland Journey from New York to San Francisco ... : Ch. 34. Railroad to the Pacific." by Horace Greeley, 1859. Courtesy The Yosemite Web. Summary21 "Pacific Railroad Convention, San Francisco, February, 1860 (Extract of minutes)." Abraham Lincoln Papers.3 "An Act to Incorporate the 'People's Pacific Railroad Company' of the State of Maine," March, 1860. "Railroad Communication with the Pacific: Central Pacific Railroad." The Galaxy. 4(8), 1867.1 "The Policy of Extending Government Aid to Additional Railroads to the Pacific by Guaranteeing Interest on their Bonds." Report of the Majority of the Senate Committee on Pacific Railroad, 1869. EXPLORATIONS AND SURVEYS, c. 1853 [References]—[Maps] "Westward Expansion – Railroad Surveys." National Park Service.18 "Pacific Railroad Survey Reports." Twelve Volumes (On-line1, 3). 1853-1854. "Pacific Railroad Surveys." by Jack Petree, Ingersoll-Rand. New! "Official Explorations for Pacific Railroads, 1853-1855." By George Leslie Albright, 1921. "Jefferson Davis, George McClellan & the Pacific RR Explorations & Surveys."  War Dept. Instructions, 1853. "Report to the President." Secretary of War, 1854. (From the Library of T. D. Judah.) "An Expedition to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah." by Capt. Howard Stansbury, U.S. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers.  Philadelphia, Lippincott, Grambo and Co., 1855.1 [18521] [Biography] "Geographical Memoir Upon Upper California in Illustration of his Map of Oregon and California, by John Charles Frémont." 1849. "Col. Fremont's Exploration of the Central Railroad Route to the Pacific." 1854. "A Report Relative to Captain Gunnison's Survey, &c." War Department, 1854. "Report of Explorations Across the Great Basin on the Territory of Utah" by James H. Simpson, 1859.1 Steel Engravings & Lithographed Maps -- 41st Parallel: Utah, Nevada and California, 1861. "Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean."  United States War Dept., 1855.3 Pacific RR Surveys Beckwith Report (Utah-Nevada-California), 1854. "The Great Reconnaissance." Later Western Surveys. National Park Service.18 THE ENGINEERS "Lewis Metzler Clement: A Pioneer of the Central Pacific Railroad." Lewis M. Clement’s Statement to the U.S. Pacific Railway Commission, 1887 Samuel Skerry Montague, (1830-1883), CPRR Chief Engineer."12 Diary of Stephen Allen Curry, 1864-1865.13 New! "Theodore Dehone Judah, M. Am. Soc. C. E., Died November 2D, 1863." Trans. Am. Soc. Civil Engineers. n.d.30, 36 New! "Theodore Dehone Judah–Railroad Pioneer" by John D. Galloway. Civil Engineering, 1941. Courtesy ASCE. New! "A Sketch of the Life of Theodore D. Judah" by Carl I. Wheat. California Historical Society Quarterly, 1925.13 "In Memoriam:  Theodore D. Judah, CPRR Chief Engineer."  Died November 2, 1863. "Grenville Mullen Dodge, (1831-1916), UPRR Chief Engineer."23 [Portraits] New! CPRR Biographical Notes from the Lynn D. Farrar Collection. "THE FIRST TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD"        by civil engineer John Debo Galloway "Builders of the Central Pacific Railroad." - [Lewis M. Clement] "Locating the Central Pacific Railroad." "Constructing the Central Pacific Railroad." "NPS HISTORICAL HANDBOOK: GOLDEN SPIKE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE"        by R.M. Utley & F.A. Ketterson, Jr., 1969.18  Cover / Contents / CPRR Map / UPRR Map Origin of the Pacific Railroad: Early Sentiment; Organization of the Central Pacific; Railroad Act of 1862; Organization of the Union Pacific; Railroad Act of 1864 Building the Pacific Railroad: The Builders; The Construction Companies; Methods of Construction; Progress of the Central Pacific; Progress of the Union Pacific The Dash to Promontory: The Great Railroad Race; Climbing the Promontory; The Last Month; Driving the Last Spike; Promontory After May 10, 1869 Significance of the Pacific Railroad. LEGISLATION & LITIGATION "Pacific Railroad Acts." 1862, 1864, ... 1874. Pacific Telegraph Act of 1860. "The General Railroad Law of California." enacted May 20, 1861. Land Grants and Mineral Rights under the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862.  General Land Office, 1862. New! "California Supreme Court: California Pacific Railroad Company v. Central Pacific Railroad Company of California." 1870.37 "In Re Sinking Fund Cases: UPRR Company v. U.S. & CPRR Company v. Gallatin." U.S. Supreme Court, (99 U.S. 700) 1878. "Pacific Railroad Officially Completed on November 6, 1869." U.S. Supreme Court (99 U.S. 402) 1879. "The Separation [unmerger] of the Central Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroads." by Fred G. Athearn, Esq., UPRR, 1922. PACIFIC RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION — INCLUDING 19th CENTURY ACCOUNTS "Building the Central Pacific Rail Road of California–1863-1869" from The Governor: The Life and Legacy of Leland Stanford – A California Colossus by Norman E. Tutorow, Ph.D., (Ch. 6, pp. 213-303), © 2004. [Chapter Contents] Courtesy N.E. Tutorow and The Arthur H. Clark Company. "The First Rail Laid."  Sacramento Daily Union, October 27, 1863. New! "CPRR Report of George E. Gray, ... upon the Constructed Road and the Located Route, made July 31, 1865." California Newspaper Articles, 1865-1866. "The Big Four and the 'Dutch Flat swindle.'" by Mark McLaughlin, Sierra Sun, July 29, 2004. "The Central Pacific Railroad,"  Debow's Review, 4(4):383-384, Oct. 1867.1 "Autobiography of James Abram Kleiser (1818 – 1906)." Manuscript, 1885. Courtesy Harry A. Kleiser & the Cloverdale Historical Society. New! "Barker Collection: Their Man in Omaha." UPRR Letters 1866-1871, edited by D. Weber, B. Combs, and D. Snoddy. (Book excerpt) Newspaper account of "Going to the Front," August, 1868. Nitroglycerine and the Central Pacific ... Terrible Explosion in San Francisco ... by G. J. Graves "Newspaper Accounts of Track Laying."18 New! "Battling blazes on the Central Pacific Railroad." [Truckee roundhouse fire, March 29, 1869] by By Gordon Richards, Sierra Sun, April 8, 2005. "Tunnels of the Pacific Railroad."  Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering Magazine, 1870. New! "The Story of the First Trans-continental Railroad: Its Projectors, Construction and History." by William Francis Bailey, Pittsburgh Printing Co., 1906.37 "A Railroad Record That Defies Defeat: How Central Pacific laid ten miles of track in one day back in 1869." by Erle Heath, Southern Pacific Bulletin, 1928. New! "Tracklaying Record of the Central Pacific by Days, 1868-1869." by Lynn D. Farrar. "Reminiscenses of Alexander Toponce." Autobiography, c. 1919. "Dates CPRR Opened for Traffic." Data from ICC Report, 1916. "The Building of the Iron Road." Overland Monthly, May, 1869. "The Pacific Railroad - Unopen."  Overland Monthly, September, 1869. "Magnificent Celebrations ... Universal Rejoicing, Enthusiasm and Jubilee."  May 9, 1869. "Joining the Rails - East & West." New York Times, May 10, 1869. "Pacific Railroad - The Last Spike." New York Times, May 11, 1869. "The Pacific R.R. Finished ... " Salt Lake Daily Telegraph, May 11, 1869.18 New! "San Francisco News Letter and California Advertiser." Describing the second gold spike, May, 1869. New! "Grand Railroad Celebration in Honor of the Completion of the National Railway Across the Continent." 1869. Courtesy California State Library. "The Completion of the Pacific Railroad" Harper's New Monthly Magazine, July, 1869, pp. 292-295.1 "The Last Tie"by Dr. J.D.B. Stillman, Overland Monthly, July, 1869.1 [Text18] "Tents at Promontory May 10, 1869." by Paul L. Hedren.18 New! "Promontory Summit, May 10, 1869 ... " by Robert L. Spude, 2005.18 New! "David Lemon – Old Timer: Fired Engine at Golden Spike Driving May 10, 1869." Union Pacific Magazine, 1924. New! "Eye Witness Tells of 'Last Spike' Driving." by Erle Heath, Southern Pacific Bulletin, May, 1926. New! "The Last Spikes." 18 "Beyond the Mississippi."  by Albert D. Richardson, 1869. "Where to Emigrate, and Why." by Frederick R. Goddard, 1869. "Our First Century:  Completion of the Pacific Railroad." "The Pacific Railroad."  by Henry V. Poor.  The North American Review, 128(271):664-681, June, 1879.1 "'The Last Spike' A Painting by Thomas Hill ..." 1881 (Description by the Artist). New! "The Last Spike" (Part 1), January 29, 1881; (Part 2) and "Hill’s 'Last Spike'—Historical Inaccuracies—Humors and Minor Incidents," February 5, 1881. San Francisco News Letter and California Advertiser.34 "Historic Moments:  Driving the Last Spike ..."  Scribner's Magazine, August, 1892.1 "Railroad Reorganization: Union Pacific." By Stuart Daggett, Ph.D., Harvard Economic Studies, 1908. [In Memoriam] "The Lucin Cut-Off." by Frederick M. Huchel, History of Box Elder County, Utah.26 "The Railroad Builders." by John Moody, 1919 — Chapter VI. "Linking the Oceans." New! "The Way Pioneer Builders Met Difficulties ..." by J. O. Wilder, Southern Pacific Bulletin, November, 1920. "From Trail to Rail — A History of the Southern Pacific Company." Southern Pacific Bulletin, 1926-1928. "The Frontier Index [Newspaper]: Chronicle of a World on Wheels." by Scott B. Eckberg.18 "Henry Root, Surveyor, Engineer ... Personal History and Reminiscences ... 1921." "Seventy-Five Years of Progress. An Historical Sketch of the Southern Pacific 1869-1944." by Erle Heath. New! "The Sacramento General Shops: Southern Pacific Company – Pacific Lines." by D.L. Joslyn, 1948. New! "The Sacramento Locomotive Works of the Central Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroads, 1864-1999." by Gordon Chappell, CRM #10, 1999. "Driving the Last Spike at Promontory, 1869." by J. N. Bowman, 1957.13 [Comments] New! "UP Locomotive #119 & CP #60, Jupiter at Promontory Summit, Utah, May 10, 1869." by Roy E. Appleman, 1966.18 "Utah's Role in the Pacific Railroad." by John J. Stewart, 1969. "Mormons and the Transcontinental Railroad." by Bill Bingham.18 "Ogden Rails: Ogden Union Railway & Depot Company."  by Don Strack, 1997.31 "Building Materials on the Pacific Railway." by John Sutton.18 "Railroad Construction Scene." by John Sutton.18 "Central Pacific Railroad Elevations." New! "Railroad Waterworks at Argenta, Nevada." by James D'Angelo, Nevada Archaeologist, 1993. Courtesy of the author. "The Central Pacific Railroad and the Legend of Cape Horn." by Edson T. Strobridge, 2001.6 "Another Theory or Myth on Cape Horn." April 19, 2004. New! "Overland Route Stations and Mileage:  Introduction; 1866-1903: Sacramento-Reno;  1866-1903: Reno-Ogden;  1904-1996: Sacramento-Reno;  1904-1996: Reno-Ogden;  Sources." by Lynn D. Farrar. New! Station Book: "Southern Pacific System: List of Officers, Agencies and Stations. 1899." Courtesy Lynn D. Farrar. PACIFIC RAILROAD TRAVEL — 19th CENTURY ACCOUNTS "Our Pacific Railroads."  Atlantic Monthly, December, 1867.1 "Central Pacific Railroad."  Debow's Review, 1867.1 New! "Incidents af a Trip Through The Great Platte Valley To The Rocky Mountains And Laramie Plains." by Silas Seymour, 1867.33 New! "Personal Diary Account by Capt. John Charles Currier of the 21st U.S. Infantry at Promontory on May 10, 1869." 18 "Across the Continent." George M. Pullman Excursion, June 18, 1869 letter to The New York Times. "Through to the Pacific." by Albert D. Richardson, New York Tribune, May-June, 1869. "The Pacific Railroad Open.  How to Go: What to See."  Samuel Bowles, 1869. "Our New West: Records of Travel between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean." Samuel Bowles, 1869.3 "Trans-Continental." 1870 Excursion On-board Newspaper. "Transcontinental Excursion of Railroad Agents, 1870." "History of the Promontory Area."18 "Roughing It." Mark Twain, 1871.3, 10  [Index to railroad passages.] [Map] [Papers] "Gretchen Schafer's 1871 Diary: Travel on the Transcontinental Railroad." "California: How to Go There, and What to See by the Way." Harper's Monthly, May, 1872. New! "California: For Health, Pleasure, and Residence. A Book for Travellers and Settlers." Charles Nordhoff, 1872. New! "The Most Eventful Journey in the History of Railroading: 36-day blizzard-filled transcontinental adventure." Walter Scott Fitz, letter, 1872. "A Few Hints on the California Journey." by Susan Coolidge, Scribner's Monthly, May, 1873. "Pacific Railroad Traveler's Letter," San Francisco, California, William Smith, 1875. "Californian Overland Railways."  Overland Monthly, January 1875.1 "Pleasure of Overland Travel.–Palace Car Life on the Pacific Railroad." from Williams' Pacific Tourist, 1876.1 Emigrant Woman's First Person Account of Travel on the Transcontinental Railroad. Letter, 1877. "The Transcontinental Tourist; The Writings and Travels of Miriam F. Leslie, 1877."18 "Across the Continent."  Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, February 9, 1878. "Between the Gates." by Benjamin F. Taylor, 1878.  Robert Louis Stevenson's 1879 transcontinental railroad trip: "Across the Plains."11; New! iTunes audio: Stanford Faculty lecture by David M. Kennedy, "The Railroad: A Stanford Romance." "Daily Notes of a Tour ... across the Continent." 1883. "The 1883 Emigrant Train" From the journals of Per Gustav & Nancy Leanore (Vaughn) Hindorff. Transcribed by Teddie Anne Driggs. "Transcontinental Railways."  Harper's Monthly, November, 1883.1 "Passenger Travel and Rest Stops." by John Sutton.18 "Bits of Travel at Home."  1887. "From Chicago to Ogden." "From Ogden to San Francisco." SAN FRANCISCO & THE CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD City Views of 19th Century San Francisco - Photographs and Stereoviews. New! "Historical Souvenir of San Francisco, Cal." View Book by C. P. Heininger, San Francisco, Cal., c. 1887. Pacific Railroad Bond, City and County of San Francisco, 1865. San Francisco Bay Area Railroad Map, Rand McNally, c. 1878. "Map of Railroads from San Francisco to Sacramento" from the Specimen Book of Electrotypes, 1885. "Guide Map of the Rail and Stage Routes to the Yosemite, Big Trees and the Geysers" from the Specimen Book of Electrotypes, 1885. "Map of Oakland, California, including the CPRR Long Wharf" from the Specimen Book of Electrotypes, 1885. Engraving of "View on S. P. R. R." from the Specimen Book of Electrotypes, 1885. Market Street Railway Map of San Francisco, including cable cars, 1943. "Souvenir of the Palace Hotel" An Illustrated Booklet published by the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, c. 1895. Autograph Letter Signed on Palace Hotel Stationary by Sen. Aaron A. Sargent,1884. CPRR San Francisco to Reno Round Trip Excursion Ticket, 1881. Market Street Railway Company Stock Certificate "A Few Hints on the California Journey." by Susan Coolidge, Scribner's Monthly, May, 1873. Panoramic View of The Golden Gate, Fort Point, and San Francisco Bay as seen from "Land's End" near Sutro Heights, c. 1895. STEAMERS OF SAN FRANCISCO BAY & THE SACRAMENTO RIVER "California Steam Navigation Co. Sacramento River Steamers Chrysopolis and Yosemite." New! "Central Pacific and Leased Railroads Locomotives, Cars, Steamers and Barges." 1878. "The Railroad Ferry Steamer Solano." by Robert L. Harris, Trans. Am. Soc. Civil Engineers, 1890. Modeling the World's Largest Ferry Boat, the CPRR "Solano" Courtesy Thomas Rubarth. "Model of the World's Largest Ferry Boat, the CPRR Solano." by T. Rubarth, W. Rubarth, and J. Turner, 2003. Steamer & Highway Route Map, Connections to Steamers, Ticket Agencies, Schedule of Service, Rates of Fares and Accomodations, 1932. SONGS, MUSIC & POEMS "Passage to India" from "Leaves of Grass." Poem by Walt Whitman. "What the Engines Said: Opening of the Pacific Railroad." Poem by Francis Bret Harte, 1869. "Gungl's railroad galop, as played by Willis' Band at the Mechanics' Industrial Fair." [Score] 1869. Courtesy Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center. "I will go West!" Song by J. P. Barrett, 1875.3 [Song Sheet] "American Popular Music before 1900 - Railroad." [Lesson Plan] "The Railroad Galop," by Joseph Gungl, Sacramento, 1869. [Sound Recording] "The Age of Progress." Poem, 1860.3 "Railroads in California Sheet Music." "Silver Palace Car." Transcontinental Railroad Sheet Music Cover, 1868. RAILROAD TIMETABLES, TRAVEL GUIDES & SCHEDULES; VIEW BOOKS "Railway & Travel Guides and the Pacific Railroad." New! "Pacific Coast Railroad Gazetteer." H.S. Crocker & Co., Sacramento, May, 1870. "Nelsons' Pictorial Guide-Books: Central Pacific Railroad." 1871. New! "Travelers' Official Railway Guide for the United States and Canada. June, 1870." New! "Nelsons' Pictorial Guide Books: Scenery of the Union Pacific Railroad." 1871. "Nelsons' Pictorial Guide-Books: The Yosemite Valley, and The Mammoth Trees and Geysers of California" c. 1871. "The Union Pacific Railroad: A Trip Across the North American Continent from Omaha to Ogden." Nelson's Pictorial Guide-Books, 1871.33 "Crofutt's Trans-Continental Tourist's Guide." by George A. Crofutt, 1871.33 New! "Crofutt's Trans-Continental Tourist's Guide." by George A. Crofutt, 1872. New! "How to Go West."  Horton & Leonard, Railroad Printers, Chicago, 1872. New! "The Atlantic to the Pacific: What to See, and How to See It." by John Erastus Lester, 1873. Courtesy The Yosemite Web. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Timetable, c. 1873. "Williams' Pacific Tourist." 1876.1   [CPRR: CA - NV - UT; UPRR:UT - WY - NE]16 CPRR Sacramento to Newcastle Timetable, 1864. Central Pacific Railroad Schedule with Timetable and Route Map, 1869.14 Central Pacific Railroad Timetable & Map, May, 1869.30, 36 Union Pacific Railroad Timetable & Map, 1869.30, 36 Courtesy CSRM. New! CPRR/UPRR Timetables from the "Travelers' Official Railway Guide for the United States and Canada." October, 1878. Courtesy Douglas van Veelen. Great Overland Route via Central Pacific, Western Pacific, and ... Union Pacific Railroad, Timetable, May, 1870.30, 36 Central Pacific RR & Union Pacific RR Timetable, May, 1879.30, 36 New! CPRR/SPRR Timetables from the "Travellers' Official Guide of the Railway and Steam Navigation Lines in the United States and Canada" 1880. pp. 180-181.30, 36 CPRR/UPRR "Overland Route" Timetable & Transcontinental Railroad Map, 1881. Central Pacific Railroad Timetable, "Traveller's Guide," May 15, 1882. Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroad Timetable, 1882, with fare schedule and route map. New! "Souvenir of Pennsylvania Railroad Sceneries." New! "Pacific Coast Souvenir." View Book by E.S. Denison, Oakland, California, 1888. New! "The Overland Trail: From The Golden Gate to The Great Salt Lake, Along the Southern Pacific – The Road of a Thousand Wonders." Southern Pacific Lines "Overland" Route Time Tables & Pullman Rates December, 1945. GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS & REPORTS "State of Railroads ... including the Prospects for a Pacific Railroad."  Seventh U.S. Census, 1852.  "Annual Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to the Secretary of the Interior, 1861." "Abstract from the 1862 Annual Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to the Secretary of the Interior relating to Government Land Grants made under the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862." "First CPRR Annual Report with Theodore D. Judah's Chief Engineer's Report." 1863. Executive Order, Fixing the Point of Commencement of the Pacific Railroad at Council Bluffs, Iowa." 1864. "Report of Board Convened to Determine on a Standard for Construction of the Pacific Railroad." Interior Department, 1866. New! "US Commissioners Reports, Sacramento to Promontory, 1864 - 1869." Courtesy of Lynn D. Farrar. "Report of the Special Commissioners upon the Central Pacific Railroad ..." February 27, 1869. "Credit Mobilier." Congressional testimony of C. P. Huntington, 1873. "Condition of the Union Pacific Railroad." 1869. "Report of the Survey of the Central and Union Pacific Railways." 1877. "Report of the Government Directors of the Union Pacific Railroad for the Year Ending June 30, 1877." "Transcontinental Railroads.  History of Construction." Commissioner of Railroads, 1883. "Report on Transcontinental Railways." Secretary of War, 1883. "Lease of Central Pacific Railroad Company to Southern Pacific Company." Original Lease, February 17, 1885, & modifications. Legislative History of the First Transcontinental Railroad from the Congressional Globe3 New! "Report ... of the United States Pacific Railway Commission." 188737   > Volume: [I] [II] [III] [IV] [V] [VI] [VII] [VIII] [Index IX] Historic American Engineering Record:  CPRR.  National Park Service, c. 1998.3 New! Historic American Engineering Record: Southern Pacific Company, Sacramento Shops. "Cultural Landscape Report: Golden Spike National Historic Site." by C. Homstad, J. Caywood, and P. Nelson NPS #16, 2000.18 [Promontory Map] "The Unheralded Resources of Golden Spike National Historic Site." by A.B. Anderson & R. Wilson, CRM #10, 1999, pp.12-14.18 CPRR & UPRR REPORTS "By-Laws of the Central Pacific Railroad Company of California, Incorporated: June 28, 1861." New! "Report of the Chief Engineer on the preliminary survey, cost of construction, and estimated revenue of the Central Pacific Railroad of California, across the Sierra Nevada Mountains, from Sacramento to the eastern boundary of California, October 22, 1862." "CPRR Annual Reports", 1863-1866; "Routes Explored, ... Surveys," T. D. Judah, et. al., 1863-1868. [Also see Judah's Survey Map14] "Central Pacific Railroad Company, November 30, 1864 (Resolutions)". Abraham Lincoln Papers.3 New! "Pacific Railroad. Speech of Hon. Leland Stanford in the Constitutional Convention of ... Nevada ..." 1864. New! "The Pacific Railroad. A Defense Against its Enemies, with Report ... to ... San Francisco." 1864. New! "Report of ... Receipts and Expenses and Estimated Revenue ... " CPRR, 1865. New! "Statement made to Senate Committee of the Nevada Legislature." CPRR, 1865. New! "Central Pacific Railroad Statement Made to the President of the United States, and Secretary of the Interior, on the Progress of the Work, October 10th, 1865." H.S. Crocker & Co., Printers, 92 J Street, Sacramento. Courtesy Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center. New! "Report of the Chief Engineer upon Recent Surveys and Progress of Construction of the Central Pacific Railroad of California." December, 1865. Courtesy L.D. Farrar. "A Statement Made by the Central Pacific Railroad of California for the Consideration of Capitalists." by C.P. Huntington, 1865. "First Mortgage Bonds of the CPRR ... Business Prospects ..." Fisk & Hatch, NY, 1867. New! "Railroad Communication Across the Continent." CPRR Bond Prospectus, 1868. "Progress of the Union Pacific Railroad West from Omaha, Nebraska, Across the Continent ..." 1868.1 New! "Manual of the Railroad of the United States: UPRR/CPRR" by Henry V. Poor 1868. Courtesy Douglas van Veelen. "UPRR Annual Report." 1869 (reporting joining of the rails).2 "Guide to the Union Pacific Railroad Lands." Union Pacific Railroad Company, 1870.33 "Report to the Stockholders of the Union Pacific Railroad." 1871. [Rail Cars; UPRR Locomotives] New! "To the Bondholders of the Central and Western Pacific Railroad Companies." Fisk & Hatch, Bankers, 1871.37 "Manual of Railroads of the United States for 1873-74" by Henry V. Poor. [with CPRR Status, Dec., 1872] New! "Rules and Regulations to be Observed by the Locomotive Engineers in the Employ of the Central Pacific Railroad Company." 1874.30, 36 "Union Pacific Railroad Annual Report, 1876." [Passengers Carried; Freight; Map] New! "Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Central Pacific Railroad Co. to the Stockholders, For the Year ending December 31st, 1878." New! "Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Central Pacific Railroad Co. to the Stockholders, For the Year ending December 31st, 1883." New! "Annual Report of the Directors of the Union Pacific Railway Company to the Stockholders. For the Year ending December 31st, 1883."37 New! "CPRR ... Rules for the Government of the Baggage Department." 1883.30, 36 New! "Central Pacific Railroad and Leased Lines: Official List of Officers, Stations, Agents; Table of Distances, Etc., Etc." General Auditor's Office, San Francisco, 1884. H.S. Crocker & Co.30 Courtesy Sacramento History Online. MANUSCRIPTS FROM THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES & LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Executive order setting the gauge of track on Pacific railroad, 1863.2 UPRR's letter of acceptance to the Pacific Railroad Act of 1863,2 Executive order appointing directors of the Union Pacific Railroad, 1864.2 Executive order appointing commissioners to examine the UPRR, 1864.2 Executive order appointing directors of the Union Pacific Railroad, 1864.2 Letter from Thomas Durant, asking for approval of location for the first 100 miles of UP track, 1864.2 Report from the Commissioners of the Pacific Railroad Commission, January, 1869.2 Report of the Engineer's Office, CPRR, July, 1869.2 Statement of Operations of the Chief Engineer, UPRR. 1869.2 Annual report of Central Pacific Railroad to stockholders, July, 1869.2 UPRR Annual Report, 1869, announcing the connection of its rails with those of CPRR.2 Annual report of the Union Pacific Railroad sent to Secretary of Interior, September, 1869.2 Index to The Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress (Pacific Railroad).3 Abraham Lincoln signature courtesy of The History Attic. Annual Report of Central Pacific Railroad to the Secretary of Interior, December, 1869.2 CHINESE RAILROAD WORKERS "Chinese Contribution to the First Transcontinental Railroad." "A History of the Chinese in California:  The Railroads." "Chinese Laborers and the Construction of the Central Pacific." Utah Historical Quarterly, 1969. New! "Chinese by the Numbers," Chapter 4, from Nameless Builders of the Transcontinental Railroad by William F. Chew, © 2004, Courtesy of the author. "Fusang:  The Chinese Who Built America:  The Chinese Railroad Men." "California: A Book for Travellers and Settlers."  by Charles Nordhoff, 1873. "The Chinese at Promontory, Utah, April 30 - May 10, 1869." by Edson T. Strobridge. "Report of the Joint Special Committee to Investigate Chinese Immigration." U.S. Senate, 1877. New! "Chinese Immigration: The Social, Moral, and Political Effect of Chinese Immigration." Senate Testimony by Creed Haymond, c. 1876.37 [CPRR] " The Workmen of the Pacific Railway." by John Sutton.18 "Chinese Laborers In The West."17 New! "Cathay in Eldorado: The Chinese in California." Keepsake Series, 1972. [CPRR] Courtesy The Book Club Of California. New! "The Chinese in Winnemucca, Nevada." by J.P. Marden. "The Chinese in America: Transcontinental Railroad," by Iris Chang, 2003. WILD WEST "Train Robbery Outside Verdi, Nevada." November 4, 1870. OVERLAND TRAVEL & SETTLEMENT BEFORE THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD "Gazetteer: California, & Travel via Nicaragua, Panama, Cape Horn & Overland." by John Hayward, 1851. "Gazetteer: A Physical, Political & Economic Description of the Utah Territory and Salt Lake City." by John Hayward, 1851. "The Traveller's and Tourist's Guide Through the United States of America, Canada, Etc." by Wellington Williams, 1851. "Horn's Overland Guide, from ... Council Bluffs, [Iowa] ... to ... Sacramento, California ..."  1852. "The Prairie Traveler.  A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions." Capt. Marcy, 1859. "Riding the Overland  Stage."  Mark Twain, 1861.4 "Dutch Flat Donner Lake Toll Wagon Road, 1864." by Jack E. Duncan. "Dutch Flat and Donner Lake Wagon Road Co. toll house report." Courtesy Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center. "Crossing the Plains."  Diary of Sarah Raymond, 1865.4 "Trails of Hope: Overland Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869." Utah Academic Library Consortium [Search] "Across the Continent by Overland Stage." Schuyler Colfax, April 18, 1865 Letter.3 GENERAL RAILROAD TOPICS "Catechism of the Locomotive." by M. N. Forney, Railroad Gazette, 1875.1 "Railroad History: Online Guide to 19th Century and Scholarly Sources." by Richard Jensen. "The Transfer of Pioneering British Railroad Technology to North America." by Frederick C. Gamst. "What the Railroad Will Bring Us," Overland Monthly, 1868.1 "The Future of American Railways."  Atlantic Monthly, 1860.1 "The History of the First Locomotives In America." by William H. Brown, 1871. Railroad articles from Scribner's Magazine, 1888-1889. "Buyers' Guide and Mechanics' Manual for the use of Railway Officials." 1874. "The Comparative Merits of Iron & Steel Rails." London Quarterly Review, July, 1866. "Effect of Railroads on the Weather" Credit Where Credit is Due? Boston Traveller, 1869. New! "List of Rail Mills from the Directory of the Iron and Steel Works of the United States." American Iron and Steel Institute, 1876. New! "Reminiscences of a Veteran Conductor: Forty Years On The Rail" by Charles B. George, 1887.37 "Broken Rail." 1892. "The Evolution of the American Locomotive." (Part 1) - (Part II) - (Part III)  by Herbert T. Walker, 1897.8 "Railroad Story Book: A Thousand Miles by Rail." McLoughlin Bros, New York, 1907. (Children's Book - Juvenile) "How a [Baldwin] Locomotive is Built." The Railroad Man's Magazine c. 1907.15 New! Railroad Fiction: "A Thrilling Tale. Running a Time Table. A Brakeman's Story." 1873. New! Favorite Railroad Fiction: "The Night Operator." by Frank L. Packard, 1919. RELATED RAILROAD HISTORY "Protection of Trains on the Overland Route." War Department, 1867. "Behind the Scenes in Washington ... the Crédit Mobilier Investigation" by E.W. Martin, 1873. "Observations on the Report of the Committee of the Senate of the United States Respecting the Credit Mobilier of America." by J.W. Patterson, 1873. "The Railroads and the Centennial Exhibition of 1876." "Information for Travelers by Rail," 1876. "The Future of California Railroads." San Francisco News Letter and California Advertiser, January 31, 1880.34 "The Sacramento Locomotive Works of the Central Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroads, 1864-1999."18 New! "Statement of the Workings of the Railroad Hospital at Sacramento, Cal." 1883. Courtesy CSRM. "Sechrist's Official Railway Equipment Register." CPRR & UPRR, June, 1885. "Marvels of the New West: Railroads Over Mountains." by William M. Thayer, 1887.8 New! "Extracts from the Report of the U.S. Pacific Railway Commission, 1888." By Robt. E. Pattison. "The Octopus." by Frank Norris, 1901.27 (Californians' resentment of the Southern Pacific Railroad.) New! "The Building of the Central Pacific Railroad" by A. J. Wells, from A History of the New California: Its Resources and People, 1905. Courtesy USGenNet. "A Surviving Shortline Contemporary of the CPRR: The Belfast & Moosehead Lake Railroad." by Bruce C. Cooper "Corporate Family Tree for the Union Pacific Railroad, including the Southern Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads." "Refunding of the Pacific Railroad Debts to the U.S. Government." Congressman James G. Maguire, 1895. "Pacific Railroad Debts." by John T. Doyle, 1896. New! "David Hewes: An Autobiography" Chapter from "Lieutenant Joshua Hewes: A New England Pioneer and Some of His Descendants ..." by Eben Putnam, 1913. New! "The Man Who Gave the Golden Spike. [David Hewes]" By Robin Lampson, 1969. "California Men and Events, 1769-1890." by George H. Tinkham, 1915.32 - Chinese - Railroad Age "The Winning of the West." (Chapter 4) from The Robber Barons by Matthew Josephson, 1934. "Orphan Train Movement: A history of the Orphan Trains Era in American History" by Mary Ellen Johnson, OTHSA, Inc. New! "The Old Central Pacific Hospital." By J. Roy Jones, M.D. New! "Fifty Years at the Throttle." by Earl Heath, Southern Pacific Bulletin, 1926. "The Case of the Stranded Streamliner" The rescue of SP's snowbound "City of San Francisco"at Yuba Pass, January 13-19, 1952. by Howard W. Bull "Trains & Travel" Vol 13, #3 January, 1953. New! "Windows on history: From glaciers to fire." Truckee Histsory by Gordon Richards, Sierra Sun, 2004. New! "All Aboard: The Role of the Railroads in Protecting, Promoting, and Selling Yellowstone and Yosemite National Parks." Masters Thesis, Univ. Virginia. POSTAL HISTORY "Postal History of the First Transcontinental Railroad." by Bruce C. Cooper "By Train and by Stagecoach, Transporting the Mail along the Transcontinental Railroad." by J.W. Milgram Courtesy The American Philatelist,©2003. MODERN ARTICLES Today! News Stories about the Transcontinental Railroad. Current News Headlines from Google News New! "Making Tracks: Big Railroads Race to Cross U.S., Again." Wall Street Journal, 12/28/2004. "Encyclopedia of Western Railroad History: Central Pacific Railroad." by Donald B. Robertson New! "The Golden Spike is Missing." by Robin Lampson. The Pacific Historian, 1970. Courtesy University of the Pacific. New! "The Last Gold Spikes at Promontory, Utah, May 10, 1869." by Edson T. Strobridge, 2005. "Snowball Express Brings First of Winter Tourists." by Mark McLaughlin, Sierra Sun, 2005. "Directory of Published Photographs of Central Pacific Railroad Locomotives" from data gathered by Eugene Lewis.25 "J. B. Silvis, the Union Pacific's Nomadic Photographer." by Barry A. Swackhamer "Iron Horse Along the Truckee: The Central Pacific Reaches Nevada." by Wendell W. Huffman "The Iron Horse and The Talking Wire." (searching for telegraph insulators in Wyoming) by Mike Green "Reign of the Sierra Storm King: A Weather History of Donner Pass." by Mark McLaughlin.28 "Surveys of Nature and Distant Connections; The Transcontinental Railroad Revisited." The Doric Column Ogden, Utah History from Ogden Anecdotes: Stories and Photos from Our First 50 Years by Irene Woodhouse. "Native Americans [Indians] and the Transcontinental Railroad" "CPRR Railroadiana Collectibles." Dan Richins (with CPRR Corporate History by Charles Sweet), Railroadiana Express, 199819 "Central Pacific Locks." by Dan Getts, Railroadiana Express, 200219 "The Placer County Railroad War." by G.J. Graves "Rail Wear on a Sharp Curve Explained." by Travis S. Johnson, 2004. "Historic Landmarks relating to the First Transcontinental Railroad." "Railroad Track Standards." U.S. Army Technical Manual #5-628, 1991 "Railroad Terms and Definitions." by Ed and Lara Golden "Looking at the Transcontinental Railroad as the Internet of 1869." by Edward Rothstein, New York Times, December 11, 1999. Economic History:  "Throttling the Railroads." (Part I) - (Part II) - (Part III) - (Part IV)7 "Steam fires underwater jet engine." - Firefighting - from Pursuit Dynamics. HISTORIC LIBRARY BOOKS & NEWS AVAILABLE ONLINE More Books about the Central Pacific Railroad.37 [Full view only] [Search] [Work in Progress] More Historic News Articles about the Central Pacific Railroad37 [Search] Courtesy [1] Making of America, University of Michigan & Cornell University Digital Library, Historical Magazines Online; [2] National Archives and Records Administration; [3] Library of Congress; [4] Eyewitness; [5] Suite101 - The Old West; [6] Edson T. 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