Union Pacific Railroad Collection

Grain elevator along railroad yard, North Platte, Nebraska, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Grain elevator along railroad yard. North Platte, Nebraska. [Sign: T.B. Hord Grain Co. Coal Hay and Feed. Union Pacific steam locomotive]

Grain elevator, Caldwell, Idaho, 1941. Creator: Russell Lee
Grain elevator, Caldwell, Idaho

George Francis Train, between 1855 and 1865. Creator: Unknown
Geo. Francis Train, between 1855 and 1865. [Entrepreneur: organised the clipper ship line that sailed around Cape Horn to San Francisco; involved in the formation of the Union Pacific Railroad

Yardman, Grand Island, Nebraska, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Yardman. Grand Island, Nebraska

Detail of old railroad station, small farming town, population 108, Irrigon, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Detail of old railroad station. Small farming town, population 108. Irrigon, Oregon

Detail of railroad station painted "railroad yellow", Irrigon, Morrow County, Oregon, 1939
Detail of railroad station painted " railroad yellow." Irrigon, Morrow County, Oregon

Railroad station, Irrigon, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Railroad station. Irrigon, Oregon. Population: 108. Land was opened to settlers here in 1914

Yardmen, Grand Island, Nebraska, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Yardmen. Grand Island, Nebraska

Pillars of Hercules, Columbia River, c1897. Creator: Unknown
Pillars of Hercules, Columbia River, c1897. The Union Pacific rail line went between two basalt columns on the Oregon side of the Columbia River

Completion of the Pacific Railroad, (1878). Creator: Albert Bobbett
Completion of the Pacific Railroad, (1878). The First Transcontinental Railroad (originally the Pacific Railroad) was the first uninterrupted railway between New York on the Atlantic Ocean

Speeding Across A Continent. Americas first diesel-electric Express has opened up a new era in railway travel, 1935. From " Railway Wonders of the World, Vol. 1"

Sunday on the Union Pacific Railway, USA, 1875. A print from The Illustrated London News, 20th March 1875

Palace Hotel Car, Union Pacific Railroad, c1870. Artist: A R Ward
Palace Hotel Car, Union Pacific Railroad, c1870. A black waiter serves customers on board a train. Illustration from Adventures of America, 1857-1900, by John A Kouwenhoven

Passenger train, Pullman of the Pacific Union, America, 20th century

Wooden trestle bridge on the Union Pacific Railroad, Dale Creek, Wyoming, USA, 1869. At 150 feet in height, the Dale Creek trestle bridge was the highest on the Union Pacific

Trestle Bridge on the Union Pacific Railroad, USA, 1876. A train crossing a wooden trestle bridge in the Sierra Nevada, California

Construction train on the Union Pacific Railroad, USA, 1868. Incorporated by an Act of Congress in 1862, the Union Pacific Railroad was built to extend the American railway system westwards across

Train crossing a wooden trestle bridge on the Union Pacific Railroad, Wyoming, USA, c1870
Train crossing a wooden trestle bridge on the Union Pacific Railroad, near Sherman, Wyoming, USA, c1870. Incorporated by an Act of Congress in 1862

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