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2024-02-29 15:35
THE HARTFORD DAILY TIMES
Hartford, Connecticut, August 15, 1853, No. 3057.
The Pacific Railroad.
The Washington Union of Friday contains & well written "leader" on the Constitutional que… Read More
2023-10-28 17:03
New Golden Spike Monument: "A Golden nugget in the middle of Nebraska" by Penny Craft, © North Platte Bulletin, October 27, 2023. (News Article) " ... A 43.23-foot [square root of the… Read More
2023-09-09 05:43
From: "Timothy Roumph" [email protected]
Today a friend and I climbed to the lookout on Red Mountain. We took an unmarked trail from the Fordyce Lake Road, very steep but takes you right t… Read More
2023-07-21 15:13
National Archives:Pacific Railway Act
An Act to Aid in the Construction of a Railroad and Telegraph Line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to Secure to the Government the Us… Read More
2023-07-20 16:17
From: "Riversong F Arms" [email protected]
We have a Winchester 1887 with CPRR markings in our reference collection on both the barrel and the tang. We had earlier thought it belong… Read More
2023-05-31 23:55
Other topics
While 99% of our acclaimed huge website is about the first transcontinental railroad, including its railroad history with exhibits, maps, photographs, and its Chinese railroad w… Read More
2023-05-13 16:43
"'Chinese Workers' Experience' exhibit sheds light on forgotten history" by SAKURA GRAY, © CBS News Sacramento, May 12, 2023. (News Article/TV/Video) "The California State Railroad Mus… Read More
2023-05-10 15:31
Golden Spike Day, May 10, 1869.
Happy Anniversary! Read More
2023-02-20 18:38
From: "John Sutton" [email protected]
CC: "Garrett Sutton" [email protected]
John L. Davie, who later became the longest serving mayor of Oakland, took
on the Central Pacific Railroad wh… Read More
2023-02-20 00:17
From: "John Sutton" [email protected]
Subject: Historical Inquiry - CPRR President Isaac L. Requa
My great, great grandfather was named Isaac Requa. He was President of the Central Pacif… Read More
2023-01-15 21:27
What is the unusual tall structure behind the 'Jupiter' locomotive (with Chinese) in this photograph. Where is this? (Any other information about this unknown?) Read More
2022-12-23 16:15
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 New York at a Christies auction.
[Courtesy Googl… Read More
2022-11-20 18:48
"Where are the precious spikes of the Transcontinental Railroad?" by Matthew Nobert, California State Railroad Museum Federation, © Nexstar Media Inc., Nov 19, 2022. (News Article) "[… Read More
2022-10-06 17:03
Also see, E.O. Gibson's Wx4 Timetable web site.
CPRR Timetable, June 18, 1868Courtesy of E.O. Gibson's WX4 Timetable web site, Shasta Archive, and SPH&TS SP Trainline (summer 2019)
[Co… Read More
2022-10-03 05:55
Tom Macaulay map, book, and reports collections at the Truckee-Donner Historical Society.
The Overland Limited on the Cold Stream bridge, just west of Truckee, California, 1902.
Courtesy of… Read More
2022-09-21 15:54
"Trans-Mississippi Railroad Construction to 1900" by Robert Edgar Riegel, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1922. (Doctoral Thesis)
[Courtesy Google Books and the Railway & Locomotive Hi… Read More
2022-08-11 16:38
Three more unique Railroad Maps (click map images to enlarge):
Map of Location of Central Pacific Railroad of California from Sacramento to Big Bend of Truckee, Theodore Judah, Chief Engine… Read More
2022-07-14 03:10
"New sculpture at Golden Spike park honors unsung heroes of railroad" by Jeff DeMoss, © Tremonton Leader, July 13, 2022. (News Article) " ... The newest monument standing at Box Elder… Read More
2022-06-27 15:44
"Tracks: Images Documenting the Building of the Railroads" by Nick Fry, © Grolier Club, June 29, 2022. (Virtual Lecture on Building the Railroads) "Nicholas Fry, curator of Travelers… Read More
2022-06-21 18:11
"Lewis Clement, founding chicken rancher in Castro Valley"
On Jun 19, 2021 "Rick Kelly" cv4wheeler wrote:
... Castro Valley, California is about 15 miles from downtown Oakland. Historicall… Read More
2022-06-05 20:06
"Lightning Express goes coast-to-coast in 83 hours (in 1876!)" by Scott Mall, © Freightwaves, June 3, 2022. (History Article) " ... the record for the [coast to coast] trip prior to 1… Read More
2022-06-03 02:42
"Nevada's Central Pacific Railroad" by Dennis Cassinelli, © Nevada Appeal, June 1, 2022. (History Article) " ... Being a construction person, I cannot help but admire what was accompli… Read More
2022-05-30 20:36
"The work of Chinese railroad workers endangered." by Raymond Douglas Chong, © AsAmNews, May 29, 2022. (News Article) " ... The Central Pacific Railroad steam locomotive rolled through… Read More
2022-05-09 01:35
[An embarassing shoddy journalistic eyewitness account of the future, evidently written ahead of time; Oops! – Cancelled! – So sorry! Emphasis in red added.]
New York Hera… Read More
2022-04-18 19:06
Subject: Central Pacific 173 - Coal or Wood?
From: "Paul Quade" [email protected]:
Hi and thanks in advance for even looking at this [message]. I really appreciate there's somebody out there t… Read More
2022-04-12 01:13
How is the debate over a northern or southern route settled? Read More
2022-03-12 16:19
" ... Holabird’s February Reno Auction", © coinnews.net, March 11, 2022. (News Article) "Fans of Western Americana turned out in droves for Holabird’s massive, four-day Wes… Read More
2022-02-24 22:04
"Awesome Railroad Thermite Welding Process You've Not Seen Before." [Click for Youtube videos.]
More information about continuous rail welding using thermite to melt the steel Read More
2022-02-23 03:27
"Edward Harriman improved railroads while building a fortune" by Scott Mall, © FreightWaves Classics, February 22, 2022. (History Article) " ... The (financial) Panic of 1893 negativel… Read More
2022-02-05 04:55
"Southern Pacific history remembered", Classic Trains, © Kalmbach Media, February 4, 2022. (History Article) " ... Union Pacific purchased the Southern Pacific on Sept. 12, 1996. SP en… Read More
2022-02-05 04:37
"Most Expensive Mansion in New Jersey ..." by Luna Fawkes, © The Proclaimer, Santa Clarita Valley, February 4, 2022. (News Article) "A Mahwah house steeped in Gilded Age splendor is the… Read More
2022-02-02 18:38
"A Lesson from Railroad History" by Lawrence W. Reed, President Emeritus of the Foundation for Economic Education ([email protected]), © The Newnan Times-Herald, February 1, 2022. (Article)… Read More
2022-01-19 01:12
"Thieves in LA are looting freight trains filled with packages from UPS, FedEx and Amazon" by Matt McFarland and Cheri Mossburg, © CNN, January 15, 2022. (News Article) "Photos and vid… Read More
2022-01-17 08:10
From: "Heidi Sproat" [email protected]
Dear RR gents:
I recently became aware of this Eadweard Muybridge Central Pacific Railroad image as [displayed] on the CPRR.org website:… Read More
2022-01-14 19:14
From: "John Lancaster" [email protected]
Hello—ran across Kevin Bunker’s name on your website, and sent him this query. Copying to you for wider distribution. Thanks!
I am a… Read More
2022-01-13 15:56
"The Quest to Protect California’s Transcontinental Railroad Tunnels" by Shoshi Parks, © Smithsonian Magazine, January 12, 2022. (Magazine Article) "Built by Chinese immigrants i… Read More
2022-01-10 05:10
The Deseret News, Volume 18, Number 12,
Salt Lake City, Wednesday, April 28, 1869.
THE PACIFIC RAILROAD BILL
The citizens of this territory have been aware for many months past, that a gr… Read More
2021-12-22 08:16
"A Hotel Pastry Chef Made a 32-Foot-Long Train Entirely From Chocolate ... his creation was directly inspired by two steam locomotives ... the Central Pacific Railroad’s Jupiter and Vi… Read More
2021-11-26 18:27
From: "Richard Webber" [email protected]
Central Pacific Railroad ticket from El Paso, Texas to San Francisco, California from 1884.
Courtesy of Richard Webber Read More
2021-11-25 05:00
Happy Thanksgiving! - see the earlier post
Also see, Lessons Learned From The Pilgrim's Plymouth Colony Economy, video by Steve Forbes Read More
2021-11-22 07:31
From: "Fredric London" [email protected]
Prior to completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869, what was the longest rail line? ...
—Fredric M. London Read More
2021-09-07 02:05
USGS topographic map resource - geological atlas folios:
USGS links to all the folios
Here are three of the folios showing the route of the Central Pacific Railroad in California:
S… Read More
2021-09-04 22:07
From: "Saundra Middleton" [email protected]
I have enjoyed perusing your CPRR Museum website. You have included so much information and many links to investigate. What an awesom… Read More
2021-08-15 20:44
From: "Heather Stivison" [email protected]
I am a former museum director, now completing a grant-funded biography of the little-known female artist, Eloise Roorbach.
She trave… Read More
2021-07-07 15:52
From: "Michael Polk" [email protected]
I am currently researching 1870's Central Pacfic Railroad track worker housing at section stations along the line in Utah (as well as Nevada and Cali… Read More
2021-07-07 07:25
"Stories of Old Nevada: Wells" by Dennis Cassinelli, © Elko Daily, July 5, 2021. (History Article) " ... Wells was founded in 1869 by the Central Pacific Railroad as a water station du… Read More
2021-07-03 21:52
"'A Horrible Death to Die.' Behind the origin myth of Stanford University lies a century-old murder. The victim: the school’s chief founder and benefactor." by Julia Flynn Siler, ©&hell…Read More
2021-07-02 03:14
Fruit Crate Labels
"Beginning in the 1880's, the Transcontinental Railroad made coast-to-coast shipments of produce possible. As a result, a form of advertising art known as fruit crate labe… Read More
2021-05-27 19:48
From: [email protected]
Just wondering who were the men in the [Andrew J.] Russell Railroad photos wearing the White Overcoats? Looks like there were several of them, like security or Pin… Read More
2021-05-11 19:07
From: "Blake Romenesko" [email protected]
I came across this article about an architect [Oliver Greene Traphagen (1854–1932)] I am particularly interested in and it mentions buil… Read More
2021-04-08 19:37
"Colfax's historic markers: Take a walk through history in a California railroad town" by Pamela Biery, © Gold Country Media, April 7, 2021. (News Article) "Colfax is home to an early… Read More
2021-04-08 19:34
"Artist chosen for new Golden Spike sculpture." © Box Elder News Journal, April 7, 2021. (News Article) "The National Park Service (NPS) and Golden Spike Foundation/ Spike 150 announce… Read More
2021-04-01 18:22
From: "Celeste Wolfe" [email protected]"
Can you direct me to a resource where I can find the list of government contracts and monies that the CPRR and UPRR were competing for during the… Read More
2021-03-20 21:00
"Legacy"– a tribute to Chinese railroad workers of the CPRR (U.S. Forest Serice Video)
From: Dennis Hogan [Courtesy of the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society Internet Message… Read More
2021-03-13 17:43
From: "Steven Craig Alvord" [email protected]
How many of those 1865 box car plates have been found?
CPRR Baggage Car Plate, 1865.Courtesy of the G. J. Graves Collection Read More
2021-03-05 16:44
"Laying the Rails to History: The Arrival of the Transcontinenal Railroad in Alameda and Oakland" by Dennis Evanosky, © Alameda Sun, March 3, 2021. (Six part History Article) "When A… Read More
2021-02-11 22:35
From: "Gordon Rowe" [email protected]
I am doing research regarding the location of the Central Pacific and/or Union Pacific Railroad lines around the Northern extent of the Great Salt Lake… Read More
2021-01-22 22:20
From: "Jim Hansen" [email protected]
If you have not seen this article it describes the 1895 portable tie [wood] treatment plant at Chestnut, California. William G. Curtis, an SP assistant gene… Read More
2020-12-12 01:12
"Electric Trains and the Electric Flash Lamp" by Mike Johnston, © The Online Photographer, December 10, 2020. (Blog Post) " ... In 1899, a man named Joshua Cohen invented a product for… Read More
2020-10-16 02:36
Here is a nice short video, apparently translated into English, that explains "How does a Locomotive Steam Engine Work?"
It shows a hot fire in a firebox, which can be fueled by wood, coal… Read More
2020-09-29 13:58
What are the names of some workers of the Central Pacific Railroad?
Great grandfathers
Lewis Metzler Clement (1837-1914)
Civil Engineers
Locomotive engineers
CPRR locomotive engineer Arthur… Read More
2020-09-27 19:57
From "DOMENICO FABRIZI" [email protected]
My name is Domenico Fabrizi and I am a UCLA Economics PhD student. I am very interested in railroads and I thought you could help me!
In… Read More
2020-09-27 02:57
"In Memoriam Dr. Denny Anspach, MD, 1934 - 2020" by California State Railroad Museum, September 25, 2020. (Obituary) "Dr. Denny Anspach, MD, a highly esteemed member of the California State… Read More
2020-06-20 00:11
From: "Ron Tyler" [email protected]
I have read your article, Eastward to Promontory, on the CPRR web page, and a quotation caught my eye that has turned up in some other sources as well… Read More
2020-06-17 16:47
The search boxes on the CPRR.org website, unfortunately, have stopped working, falsely reporting "No results found"
This is a search engine bug related to the search being of both the CPRR M… Read More
2020-06-17 04:33
"Gasconade Bridge Disaster: The Immediate Aftermath Nov. 1, 1855 - Nov. 5, 1855" by Ray Ham, © Hermann Advertiser Courier, June 16, 2020. (Newspaper Article) "While commendable actions… Read More
2020-05-20 21:09
From: "Joshua Dyer" [email protected]
I have an historical fiction novel, Barons, that follows the Associates and the construction of the First transcontinental railroad. ... It's current… Read More
2020-04-29 20:42
From: "Thomas Viano" [email protected]
... I'm trying to locate information on Eder, [California] located above Donner Lake between Andover and the Summit Tunnel.
I'm writing a short article… Read More
2020-04-29 20:24
From: "Thomas Walsh" [email protected]
How did the railroad companies acquire the rights of way for their trackage? Eminent Domain? Government program? Did they survey and record the… Read More
2020-04-29 20:16
From: "Alexander Duncan" [email protected]
I am writing a short story. The lead character in my story is a young man who is traveling with his uncle from San Francisco to New York City… Read More
2020-03-31 00:59
"Beautiful Allegory of Western Expansion"
" ... [American Expansion]: CHASE & BACHELDER'S AMERICAN MUSEUM OF ART. Nottingham, England: Stafford & Co., [n.d., but ca. 1880s]. Color wo… Read More
2020-03-07 20:46
"At the Throttle: Does anybody really know what time it is?" by Mark Bassett, © The Ely Times, March 6, 2020. (Article) " ... with no time standards in place, the time the last spike w… Read More
2020-02-25 19:17
From: "Barb Weismann" [email protected]
... Do you have any photos of oxen being used on either end of the Transcontinental railroad? There are very few references, yet Laura Ingalls Wild… Read More
2020-02-07 18:13
From: "Brenda Williams" [email protected]
I inherited the below picture that is mounted on a thick cardboard. It is a Cecil B. Demille's Union Pacific picture of Driving the Golden Spike… Read More
2020-02-05 22:31
Helen Hunt Jackson and how she caused the first tourism boom to California.
The television program Great American Railroad Journeys, in the Monterey to Los Angeles episode, explains who trav… Read More
2020-01-28 19:30
From: "Arthur Fluter" [email protected]
In the [California State Railroad] Museum, just past Gov Stanford, on the far site of the grotto, the display is of a tunnel portal with the date o… Read More
2020-01-26 20:35
"Following the Footsteps of the Central Pacific Surveyors" by C. Barton Crattie, LS, CFS, CFM, © American Surveyor (Spatial Media, LLC), 1/25/2020. (Article) "The Survey—it was a… Read More
2020-01-22 17:49
From: "Michael Polk" [email protected], [email protected]
I am an archaeologist who has been doing archaeology and historical research on the Promontory Branch of the Cen… Read More
2020-01-19 23:22
From: "Arthur Fluter" [email protected]
In the books describing Theodore Judah’s route research, mention is made that Anna Judah painted landscapes to help describe the route. I thi… Read More
2020-01-15 20:37
The Inquirer, Nantucket, Massachusetts, May 30, 1849 [Newspaper]A RAILROAD TO THE PACIFIC — the acquisition of California, the discovery of gold there in almost unprecedented abundance… Read More
2019-11-03 21:34
"No first-person memoirs of the Chinese experience in nineteenth-century California are known to survive."
—Library of CongressFrom: "John Shubert" [email protected]
Subject: Gold Mountain… Read More
2019-11-03 20:32
From: "Marc Shaffer" [email protected]
... I'm making a documentary film on Eadweard Muybridge. I’m wondering ... have you ever encountered a photograph of Leland Stanford with… Read More
2019-10-21 19:54
From: "WILLIAM JONAS" [email protected]
Could you help me determine the age and use of this uniform. The buttons were made by C.A. Brophy of Aurora, Illinois. The coat by Nelson & B… Read More
2019-09-09 16:50
"10 Ways the Transcontinental Railroad Changed America" by Patrick J. Kiger, © history.com, September 4, 2019. (History Stories) " ... 1. It made the Western U.S. more important.
2. I… Read More
2019-07-20 20:22
"Forgotten Workers: Chinese Migrants and the Building of the Transcontinental Railroad" Smithsonian. (Exhibition) "National Museum of American History, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue… Read More
2019-06-13 20:48
You can now purchase online the Transcontinental Railroad 150th Anniversary Commemorative U.S. "forever" Stamps from the United States Post Office.
There are three stamps in the series, one… Read More
2019-05-23 18:14
From: "Buckingham Books" [email protected]
... Listed below are items on RAILROADS - 1875 and BEFORE from our collection. ...
4. DAVIS, JEFFERSON [SECRETARY OF WAR]. REPORTS OF EXPL… Read More
2019-05-18 17:39
"150th anniversary of Transcontinental Railroad kicks off in Truckee" by Hannah Jones, © sierrasun.com, May 17, 2019. (News Article) "A summer-long celebration of the completion of the… Read More
2019-05-12 19:50
"Old Sacramento Celebrates 150th Anniversary Of The Transcontinental Railroad." © CBS Sacramento 13, May 8, 2019. (News Video) "We talk with the great great great great nephew of Theod… Read More
2019-05-12 19:45
"Historic telegrams tell the story of how the Transcontinental Railroad ushered in new era" by The Associated Press, © The Salt Lake Tribune, May 9, 2019. (Article) " ... The Baltimore… Read More
2019-05-12 19:35
"150 years of railroad snow removal in the Sierra" by Jerry Blackwill , © Sierra Sun, May 9, 2019. (News Article) " ... The first surveyors of the transcontinental railroad thought the… Read More
2019-05-12 19:32
"150 Years Ago, America Was United By Train: Railroads were America's first big business and still help to build U.S. industry" by Thomas Black
and Marisa Gertz , © bloomberg.com, May 9… Read More
2019-05-12 19:26
"Building the Transcontinental Railroad: How 20,000 Chinese Immigrants Made It Happen" by Lesley Kennedy, © history.com, May 10, 2019. (News Article) " ... At first railroad companies… Read More
2019-05-12 19:17
"The Central Pacific Railroad Company in equitable account with the United States, growing out of the issue of subsidy bonds in aid of construction Central Pacific Railroad Company. H. Bess… Read More
2019-05-12 19:07
"Thousands gather to reclaim Chinese railroad workers' place in history" by Chris Fuchs, © nbcnews.com, May 10, 2019. (News Article) " ... Friday’s commemoration, which officials… Read More
2019-05-11 21:07
"Celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad by Sleeping in a Train Car" by Jennifer Billock , © smithsonian.com, May 7, 2019. (Caboose Motels) " ... these authent… Read More
2019-05-10 07:01
150th Anniversary of the joining of the rails of the first transcontinental railroad!
May 10, 1869 - May 10, 2019Central Pacific Railroad and Union Pacific Railroad joined at Promontory Summ… Read More
2019-05-09 22:44
"Stanford scans storied Judah railroad map" by Kathleen Sullivan, © Stanford News, May 8, 2019. (News Article) "Stanford Libraries has scanned an 1861 map depicting a proposed route fo… Read More
2019-05-08 21:01
"Telling 'The Epic Story Of The Chinese Who Built The Transcontinental Railroad'" by Meghna Chakrabarti, © wamu.org, May 7, 2019. (Audio interviews) On Point, NPR Podcast
"GuestsGordon… Read More
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