Map of the Union Pacific Railroad and its connections, (1868)

Map of the Union Pacific Railroad and its connections, (1868)

Union Pacific Railroad Company<br>Railroads--Maps<br>Central Pacific Railroad Company<br>Durant, Thomas C.<br>Dodge, Grenville<br>Oregon Short Line<br>Oregon-Washington Railway and Navigation Company<br>Promontory Summit (Utah)<br>Washington Territory

1 map; 14 x 23 cm.<br>The first railroad to stretch across the United States, the Union Pacific Railroad, was completed in just four years--from 1865 to 1869. This map was in fact printed one year before the completion of the road. Linking up with the Central Pacific, the transcontinental railroad ran from Omaha, Nebraska to Sacramento, California, some 1,700 miles of track. <br>The laborers of the Union Pacific worked at a staggering pace in all kinds of weather and dangerous conditions. Still, under the direction of construction manager and Vice President Thomas C. Durant and the expertise of Chief Engineer Grenville Dodge, the men laid a mile of track per day--sometimes more. The Central Pacific and the Union Pacific met on May 10, 1869, at the summit of Promontory Point near Ogden, Utah. Note the branch line for the Puget Sound. The Oregon Short Line of the Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation Company would connect the Union Pacific to the northwest in 1884.<br> In a sense, not only did the line link the nation physically and commercially, but the idea of traveling from the Atlantic to the Pacific Coasts in just ten short days united the nation as a people as well.

Union Pacific Railroad Company.

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New York : Ferd. Mayer & Co. Lithog.

1868

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Is part of Progress of the Union Pacific Railroad west from Omaha, Nebraska, across the continent, making, with its connections, an unbroken line from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. Eight hundred and twenty miles completed Sept. 20, 1868.

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WSU 179<br>HE2791 .U55 P76 1868a

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