Transcontinental Railroad Images
The CP Progenitor
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Theodore Judah, engineer, surveyor, and father of the Central Pacific.
Scoundrel of the UP
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Thomas "Doc" Durant at the Union Pacific's end of track:
Laying the Track
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Construction work along the Union Pacific.
Marketing the Iron Horse
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Here's an advertisement for the opening of the line to the Pacific—note the travel time from Omaha to San Francisco.
Promontory Point in Pictures
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The Central Pacific Railroad Photographic Museum site maintains a page with several photos from the ceremony marking the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869.