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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, Muybridge, Reilly, Savage, Watkins, and Anthony picture locomotives, snowplows, trains, scenery, bridges, tunnels, and snowsheds.
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transcontinental railroad, Central Pacific railroad, CPRR stereograph stereographs stereo stereoview stereoviews Southern Union, photographic history museum library 3D 3-D picture pictures U.P.R.R. UPRR Stanford Hopkins Huntington Crocker Montague Theodore Judah Lewis Metzler Clement rail train trains steam engine locomotive locomotives diamond stack A. A. Hart Alfred Carleton Watkins Thomas Lawrence Houseworth Charles Savage Ottinger Pond J. Reilly E. & H.T. Anthony Muybridge Andrew Russell 19th century nineteenth albumen prints Currier Ives Harper Harpers Harper''s Weekly Leslie Frank engraving engravings map maps 1860''s 1870''s Sierra Nevada mountains Donner Lake summit tunnel bridge trestle travel transportation western Americana Sacramento Truckee Cisco Colfax C.P.R.R. C. P. R. R. CPRR.org photographs photography photograph photo California Nevada Utah snowshed snowsheds RR, R.R. trans-continental Promontory Point golden spike driving ceremony
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