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Welcome to the CPRR Discussion Group at the Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum. See HOW TO POST to the CPRR Discussion Group. © 2015 CPRR.org. Use of this Web site c… Read More

Hi, I am doing a school project and I wanted to know, what meals were served on the CPRR, and how much did they cost? Read More

From: "Bill Metnik" [email protected] I recently acquired a metallic print of CPRR Locomotive #317 pulling a string of flatbed cars loaded with stage coaches. (See 2 photos attached). Was t… Read More

From: "Joel Pickford" [email protected] Can you tell me approximately what CPPR passage would have cost per person from Iowa to Oakland, California in 1875? ... —Joel Pickford, Pi… Read More

From: "Jon F. Thompson" [email protected] I'm attempting to find information on the original CPRR right-of-way, areas that have been abandoned and can be hiked. I've searched the Intern… Read More

From: "Ethan Blue" [email protected] I found your marvelous website, and have been searching through its masses of information! Incredible stuff! I'm specifically trying to find corresp… Read More

From: "David Tuckfield" [email protected] My grandfather, who worked for the railroad in salt lake and Ogden area had this iron plaque among his possessions. Do you know what this is and wh… Read More

From: "Heidi Cavagnolo" [email protected] My great grandfather was the pilot of the CPRR steamer Apache from at least 1881 until at least 1884, based on San Francisco City directories. He… Read More

From: "Chris from Trains" [email protected] I have a hand written letter on Central Pacific Railroad letterhead from the office of the President, Sacramento dated February 10, 1872. It is addre… Read More

From: "Rick McMorran" [email protected] I know there are some serious CPRR collectors here who might be interested in the change to obtain a historic CPRR Railroad Police badge. This is… Read More

From: "Jim Trimmer" [email protected] The Trotwood-Madison Historical Society has a painting [dated January 5, 1995] depicting a CPRR steam engine [#124] pulling an emigrant train through… Read More

From: "Mark Baker Enterprises" [email protected] Just listed on eBay and thought you might like it! ...1876 Jarrett & Palmers Transcontinental Express Train CPRR Henry Small 2 Photo… Read More

From: "Camryn Dusthimer" [email protected] ... Where can I find information about what the weather was like during the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad? I’ve been abl… Read More

From: "Melissa Jacobson" [email protected] Re: Question about The Swackhamer Pacific Railroad Stereograph Collection I'm doing research for a documentary, and have been trying to t… Read More

From: "Gary Romele" [email protected] Can you tell me if this Postcard is of Samuel Morse's son from Postcard dated early 1914? Do you have any information to verify this as Samuel Morse'… Read More

Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum Two decades: 1999-2019 Five million visitors! Happy 20th Anniversary Read More

From: "Deborah Lilley" [email protected] Greetings from Places, the journal of public scholarship on the built environment. We've published an article today that might be of interest… Read More

From: "Dianne Reiken" [email protected] I am looking into purchasing a flip over seat with a patent date of April 2nd 1867. Do you know if they have recast any or is this legitima… Read More

From: "Dianne Reiken" [email protected] I am looking into purchasing a flip over seat with a patent date of April 2nd 1867. Do you know if they have recast any or is this legitimat… Read More

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

"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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

Reno, Nevada.Myron Lake, owner of the nearby toll bridge, deeded acreage to the Central Pacific Railroad to locate the depot at this site. In April 1868 the CPRR platted the area and on May… Read More

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

"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

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

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

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

"'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, ©… Read More

In this photograph by Alfred Hart taken between 1865–1869, a Native American man looks down upon a newly completed section of the Transcontinental Railroad, 435 miles from Sacramento… Read More

In this photograph by Alfred Hart taken between 1865–1869, a Native American man looks down upon a newly completed section of the Transcontinental Railroad, 435 miles from Sacramento… Read More

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

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

International projects University ratings Contacts The Center for Public Relations and the rating of the Karaganda Technical University is a subdivision of the Strategic Development Departme… Read More

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

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

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

"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

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

"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

" ... 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

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

"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

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

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

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

It spread Anglo-European culture throughout the nation and caused trade to flourish, but the story of the Chinese workers who built the line has been largely forgotten.  "You can almost… Read More

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

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

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

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

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