pacific railroad

Interior of a palace hotel car used on the Pacific Railroad / sketched...

Interior of dining car on railroad. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1869 May 29, p. 348.

Across the continent on the Pacific Railroad - dining saloon of the ho...

Bensenville, Illinois. General view of part of the Bensenville yard of...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 790C, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

George R. Taylor to Hamilton R. Gamble, Monday, April 13, 1863 (Pacif...

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 790A, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, 11 miles west of Corrine, Corinne,...

Significance: The seven Promontory Branch railroad trestles were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route constructed across the United States. As such they represent important remnants of ... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, 11 miles west of Corrine, Corinne,...

Significance: The seven Promontory Branch railroad trestles were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route constructed across the United States. As such they represent important remnants of ... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 788B, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 791B, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 791B, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

A faded mural on the wall of a building in Dallas, Texas, advertising ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This was a featured route for that railroad as early as 1872, though this advertisement probably dates to the 1930s or 1940s, when pa... More

Bensenville, Illinois. Switching operations in Bensenville yard of the...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 790C, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad, Overhead Highway Brid...

Significance: This triple-span rigid frame concrete deck girder bridge is significant for being the oldest known structure of its type in Minnesota. Survey number: HAER MN-77

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 789C, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

James A. McDougall and James H. Campbell to Abraham Lincoln, Tuesday, ...

Completion of the Pacific Railroad - meeting of locomotives of the Uni...

"Photographed by Savage & Ottinger, Salt Lake City." Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1869 June 5, p. 356.

Work on the last mile of the Pacific Railroad--Mingling of European wi...

Men removing large rocks from hill for completion of the Pacific Railroad. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 13, no. 648 (1869 May 29), p. 348.

Texas and Pacific Railroad "Flier," Dallas, Tex.

View facing front of locomotive, with large cloud of smoke coming from it; woman walking in foregrd. Stereo copyrighted by B.W. Kilburn, Littleton, N.H. No. 17230. No copyright renewal. This record contains unv... More

Track repair work at the Bensenville yard of the Chicago, Milwaukee, S...

12002-14. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Bensenville, Illinois. Gandy-dancer crew working in Bensenville yard o...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 790C, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 790B, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

Samuel Hallett & Co. to Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, May 07, 1863 (Paci...

Go west over the Missouri Pacific or Atlantic & Pacific railroad, via ...

Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Go west over the Missouri Pacific or Atlantic & Pacific railroad, via ...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Missouri, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a train sign. Office of War Information Pho...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad, Overhead Highway Brid...

Significance: This triple-span rigid frame concrete deck girder bridge is significant for being the oldest known structure of its type in Minnesota. Survey number: HAER MN-77

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 790A, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

Pacific Railroad, Thursday, November 14, 1861 (Pamphlet)

Go west over the Missouri Pacific or Atlantic & Pacific railroad, via ...

Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Across the continent - hotel life on the plains - on the line of the P...

Across the continent, on the Pacific Railroad - drawing-room of the ho...

Public domain photograph of 19th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Anaconda, Montana. Brakeman of the Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railroa...

Public domain photograph of 1930s industry, war production in the United States free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bensenville, Illinois. The "Midwest Hiawatha" of the Chicago, Milwauke...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, Illinois & Michigan Canal Bri...

Significance: Of the two surviving plate-girder swing bridges built across the I & M Canal, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Canal Bridge is the only one which contains a center pivot pier. The others were b... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 790C, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

Francis J. Herron to George R. Taylor, Monday, April 27, 1863 (Extens...

Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad, Overhead Highway Brid...

Significance: This triple-span rigid frame concrete deck girder bridge is significant for being the oldest known structure of its type in Minnesota. Survey number: HAER MN-77

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 790A, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

Go west over the Missouri Pacific or Atlantic & Pacific railroad, via ...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Missouri, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chicago, Illinois. Freight cars at the Galewood freight terminal of th...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Abraham Lincoln papers: Series 1. General Correspondence. 1833-1916: A...

Southwest branch of Pacific Railroad

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 790B, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 790A, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, 11 miles west of Corrine, Corinne,...

Significance: The seven Promontory Branch railroad trestles were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route constructed across the United States. As such they represent important remnants of ... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 788B, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 791B, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

Bensenville, Illinois. General view of part of the Bensenville freight...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Bensenville, Illinois. Switching operations in Bensenville yard of the...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Francis J. Herron to George R. Taylor, Monday, April 27, 1863 (Extens...

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 788B, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

Francis J. Herron to George R. Taylor, Monday, April 27, 1863 (Extens...

Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad, Overhead Highway Brid...

Significance: This triple-span rigid frame concrete deck girder bridge is significant for being the oldest known structure of its type in Minnesota. Survey number: HAER MN-77

William Rabe to Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, July 05, 1860 (Pacific rai...

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 789C, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 788B, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

Go west over the Missouri Pacific or Atlantic & Pacific railroad, via ...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Missouri, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Commercial and geographical relation of New York to Europe and Asia, w...

Composite of seven illustrations showing: Aspinwall, New Granada, Central America; Honolulu, Hawaii, Sandwich Islands; Panama, New Granada, Central America; snow shed on the Central Pacific Railroad; map of the... More

"All Hail and Farewell to the Pacific Railroad." Wendell Phillips [In...

Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, v. 13, (1869 July 10), p. 436. Ref. copy in [SSF(Gr)?] Indians cartoons. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Caption card tracings: Cartoons; West; Indians; ... More

Across the continent, on the Pacific Railroad - Kitchen of the hotel e...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Wood engraving after Albert Berghaus. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 29, no. 746 (1870 Jan. 15), p. 304. Stamped "Printed for fi... More

Bensenville, Illinois. General view of part of the Bensenville yard of...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Bensenville, Illinois. Track repair work at the Bensenville yard of th...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Stuhl, Chief of the Pennsylvania Railroad secti...

Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 790A, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 789C, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

Map showing the new transcontinental route of the Atlantic & Pacific R...

Map covering the southwestern states but extending from Chicago to the Pacific Coast. 12027 U.S. Copyright Office Scale ca. 1:3,800,000. LC Railroad maps, 330 Description derived from published bibliography. Sh... More

San Bernardino, California. An emblem on a Chicago, Milwaukee, Saint P...

Public domain photograph - California, United States, World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad, Overhead Highway Brid...

Significance: This triple-span rigid frame concrete deck girder bridge is significant for being the oldest known structure of its type in Minnesota. Survey number: HAER MN-77

Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad, Overhead Highway Brid...

Significance: This triple-span rigid frame concrete deck girder bridge is significant for being the oldest known structure of its type in Minnesota. Survey number: HAER MN-77

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 790A, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

Chicago, Illinois. One of the Chicago, Milwaukee, Saint Paul and Pacif...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an arch stone structure, bridge, or tunnel, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 789C, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 789C, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

Bensenville, Illinois. The "Midwest Hiawatha" of the Chicago, Milwauke...

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chicago, Illinois. General view of part of the Galewood yard of the Ch...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad, Overhead Highway Brid...

Significance: This triple-span rigid frame concrete deck girder bridge is significant for being the oldest known structure of its type in Minnesota. Survey number: HAER MN-77

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 788B, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 791B, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

Across the continent - hotel life on the plains - on the line of the P...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 29 (1870 Jan. 22), p. 325 (bottom left). Stamped "Printed for file, Library of Congress."

General view of part of the Galewood yard of the Chicago, Milwaukee, S...

Public domain photograph of train tracks, railroad works, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pacific railroad - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Print shows a railroad steam locomotive labeled "S.L. to S.Fo." with coal car, "U.S. Mail" car, and two passenger cars, under steam, heading left to right, with a Native, two frontiersmen, and a dog in the fore... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 790C, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 790B, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 790A, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

Chicago, Illinois. One of the Chicago, Milwaukee, Saint Paul and Pacif...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a narrow passage, corridor, street, old town architecture, arch, vintage print, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 789C, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

Promontory Route Railroad Trestles, Trestle 788B, 11 miles west of Cor...

Significance: This trestle is one of many remaining Promontory Route railroad trestles which were originally part of the first transcontinental railroad route across the United States. These trestles represent... More

Bensenville, Illinois. General view of part of the Bensenville yard of...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Bensenville, Illinois. Pipe for the "Big Inch" line, being switched at...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Bensenville, Illinois. Repair work going on at Bensonville yard of the...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Abraham Lincoln papers: Series 1. General Correspondence. 1833-1916: L...

Telegram concerning Pacific Railroad

Abraham Lincoln papers: Series 1. General Correspondence. 1833-1916: V...

Memorandum on Pacific Railroad

Abraham Lincoln papers: Series 1. General Correspondence. 1833-1916: F...

Telegram concerning construction of Pacific Railroad

Abraham Lincoln papers: Series 1. General Correspondence. 1833-1916: C...

Draft of letter for Lincoln to send to Rosecrans regarding completion of the Southwest branch of Pacific Railroad

Abraham Lincoln papers: Series 1. General Correspondence. 1833-1916: L...

Sioux City branch of Pacific Railroad

Abraham Lincoln papers: Series 1. General Correspondence. 1833-1916: A...

Draft of Order Extending Southwest Branch of Pacific Railroad; with two copies

Abraham Lincoln papers: Series 1. General Correspondence. 1833-1916: J...

Pacific railroad

Abraham Lincoln papers: Series 1. General Correspondence. 1833-1916: W...

Pacific railroad