Description: Central Pacific Railroad construction in the 1860's. Stereoviews, engravings, maps, and documents are treasures of western Americana that illustrate the history of the first transcontinental railroad, built from Sacramento, California over the Sierra Nevada mountains, the to end of track at the Golden Spike Ceremony at Promontory, Utah where the rails were joined on May 10, 1869 with the Union Pacific Railroad from Omaha, Nebraska. CPRR stereograph images by Alfred A. Hart, A. J. Russell, Houseworth, Muyb
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Jubilation Laying the Last Rail Joining of the rails linking the Central and Union Pacific Railroads, May 10, 1869, Promontory Summit, Utah . CPRR's " Jupiter " engine on the left, UPRR's engine "No. 119" on the right. "One of the classic icons of American imagery." (Detail of Savage and Ottinger carte de visite with manuscript title, "Jubilation Laying the Last Rail." Historic Photo Courtesy C. Wesley Cowan . Albumen print from the left image, glass collodion negative of the C. R. Savage stereograph " T
Overcoming incredible obstacles , transcontinental railroad construction finished 7 years ahead of schedule ! Don't miss the thousands of transcontinental railroad pictures in the Exhibits!
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