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Southern Pacific Railroad advertisement from 1885. The company was founded in 1865 as a land holding company and became a railroad when it acquired the Central Pacific in 1885. The Central Pacific had employed as many as 12,000 emigrant Chinese laborers to build the railroad line from California to Utah where the "golden spike" was laid in 1869 to form the first transcontinental railroad. Utah was the connecting place with the Union Pacific railroad which had been built west from Council…
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Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad poster for lands in southwest Kansas - Kansas Memory
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Vintage Union Pacific Railway Ad - 1954
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In a new travelling exhibition, the significance of the transcontinental railroad, finished in 1869, will be celebrated in a series of images capturing its arduous construction through to its triumphant completion
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“Empire Builder” James J. Hill (1838 – 1916) built the nation’s fifth transcontinental railroad across the top of the country without governmental subsidies. When he threw the wei…
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Union Pacific Railroad, 1953
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More than just a classic railroad ad, this series of magazine ads placed by the Pennsylvania Railroad truly demonstrate the patriotism, hard work, and sacrifices that were made by our families, industry, and our nation in fighting for freedom when the whole world was at war. Produced throughout 1944-1945, these ads posted the running total of Pennsylvania Railroad employees that had entered the Armed Forces and the number that gave their lives for our country. Numbers for this ad: 50,840…
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Today is the 155th anniversary of the completion of the first transcontinental railroad at Promontory Summit, Utah. A golden spike was driven into the ground to commemorate the connection of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific roads – and it remains one of the great stories of the American West. Now think about this: In one century – 1869-1969 – America went from linking rail across the nation, to putting a human being on the lunar surface. That’s quite the leap! #promontorySummit…
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Northern Pacific Railroad ad in Trains Magazine for July, 1949
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California Zephyr ad 1948
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