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first transcontinental railroad central pacific railroad photographic history museum engraved on the golden last spike of the first transcontinental railroad may god continue the unity of our country as this railroad unites the two great oceans of the world central pacific railroad photographic history museum click to enter the cprr museum jubilation laying the last rail joining of the rails linking the central and union pacific railroads may 10 1869 promontory summit utah cprr s jupiter engine on the left uprr s engine no 119 on the right one of the classic icons of american imagery detail of savage and ottinger carte de visite with manuscript title jubilation laying the last rail historic photo courtesy c wesley cowan albumen print from the left image glass collodion negative of the c r savage stereograph the joining of the rails 1999 2026 cprr org permission required for any use other than personal educational web viewing no warranty click on any link or image to indicate i accept the user agreement terms conditions apply faster home exhibits history faq s links align center valign center search rights permissions homework faster download smaller pictures museum homepage exhibits index favorite cprr stereographs hart stereoviews new york public library muybridge stereoviews union pacific railroad unknowns railroad maps engravings ephemera and collectibles nelson s guidebook 1871 railroads shipped by sea locomotive falcon stereograph catalogs read about lewis m clement biography eastward to promontory chinese railroad workers book list online books hopkins rr library catalog links to other websites webrings frequently asked questions how you can help plans what s new technical notes special requests user agreement site map cprr org welcome this page e mail search internet translate español français deutsch italiano português chinese japanese korean legalese transcontinental railroad history the visionary theodore judah laid the engineering groundwork but samuel montague and lewis clement carried it over and through the great granite peaks across the donner pass and down the truckee canyon robert m utley the new york times review of books december 12 1999 overcoming incredible obstacles transcontinental railroad construction finished 7 years ahead of schedule don t miss the thousands of transcontinental railroad pictures in the exhibits sacramento cal waterfront pacific railroad western terminus the first spike sacramento railroad station 1874 painting by william hahn courtesy uc berkeley digital library project homework pictures teachers see great railroad race game for school kids lesson plans rr books online lewis clement had achieved a triumph of the first magnitude in engineering the summit tunnel was 7 042 feet above the sea this was the highest point reached by the cp the facings were off by only two inches a feat that could hardly be equaled in the twenty first century clement had done it with black powder nitroglycerin and muscle power he had not used electric or steam driven drills steam engines to power scoop shovels or any gas or electric powered carts or cars to haul out the broken granite there were no robots no mechanical devices well over 95 percent of the work was done by the chinese men they and their foremen and the bosses clement and crocker and strobridge had created one of the greatest moments in american history more than a dozen tunnels were blasted through the granite mountains most were on curves laid out by lewis clement when the faces met they were never more than an inch off line showing the remarkable accuracy of his calculations and instrument work under the most difficult of circumstances van nostrand s engineering magazine said in 1870 that the undertaking was preposterous but clement did it stephen e ambrose nothing like it in the world the men who built the transcontinental railroad 1863 1869 the idea for a transcontinental railroad to shrink the continent and change the whole world was first proposed by men of imagination in 1830 it wasn t until 1862 that congress passed a bill authorizing such a venture in 1869 after a long bitter and often terrifying struggle against indian attacks brutal weather floods labor shortages political chicanery lawlessness and a war the first transcontinental railroad finally became a reality now the way was open for vast expansion and social changes that would make america the industrial giant of the world one of the great engineering feats of history and a fascinating chapter in the development of our country after rails across the continent the story of the first transcontinental railroad by enid johnson text courtesy walt winter an 1846 cincinnati newspaper mocked the utopian claims that a railroad could create settlements commerce and wealth the project s supporters the paper suggested might as well be promising to unite neighboring planets in our solar system and make them better acquainted with each other looking at the transcontinental railroad as the internet of 1869 by edward rothstein new york times december 11 1999 text courtesy david bain interview photography was a critical marketing tool for financing with transcontinental railroad bonds both the cprr and uprr hired photographers to document the progress of construction producing the numerous stereoviews which now illustate this website the camera equipment of the day was so large and heavy that a photo wagon was needed wet glass plate collodion negatives had to be produced in the field required long exposures and albumen paper required 20 minutes in sunlight to make photo prints today s digital cameras by comparison are a marvel to select the best camera to create photographs for the cprr museum website we found invaluable the extensive reviews on a great site for digital cameras digital camera hq 1999 2026 cprr org by visiting this site you agree to the terms of the cprr org user agreement permission to browse this website is contingent on acceptance of the user agreement freight train rounding cape horn 2487 elevation watkins new cabinet series detail topo map aerial photo see other watkins views at the getty museum royal geographic society in 1864 the first chinese workers were hired and starting in march 1865 thousands of chinese in kwantung province were recruited by central pacific railroad co to work on the western portion of transcontinental railroad the roadbed was blasted out of the solid rock mountainside in the fall of 1865 by lowering chinese workers also known as celestials after the celestial kingdom as these tireless workers referred to their homeland on ropes down the cliff face these chinese men drilled and packed black power charges in the rock lit the fuses and had the agility to scamper up the ropes before the explosions cape horn sierra nevada mountains california the chinese made the roadbed and laid the track around cape horn though this took until the spring of 1866 it was not as time consuming or difficult as had been feared still it remains one of the best known of all the labors on the central pacific mainly because unlike the work in the tunnel it makes for a spectacular diorama as well it should hanging from those ropes drilling holes in the cliff placing the fuses and getting hauled up was a spectacular piece of work the white laborers couldn t do it the chinese could if not as a matter of course then quickly and at least they made it look this way easily young lewis clement did the surveying and then took charge of overseeing the railroad engineering at cape horn what clement planned and the chinese made became one of the grandest sights to be seen along the entire central pacific line trains would halt there so tourists could get out of their cars to gasp and gape at the gorge and the grade stephen e ambrose nothing like it in the world the men who built the transcontinental railroad 1863 1869 this is my railroad sprr video c 1940 s i ii click images to view the two parts of the movie courtesy internet movie archive driving the last spike savage and ottinger carte de visite courtesy c wesley cowan central pacific railroad photographic history museum cprr org click here to enter the museum museum bookshop help with your support praised as the best rr website on the planet top old photos stereoviews transcontinental railroad pictures historic photography 19th century images old west illustrations western united states american history illustrated westward expansion listen to live sierra nevada mountains railroad radio communications up roseville scanner listen with itunes audio stream is broadcasting courtesy of steven reynolds of sacramento california and railroadradio net next page macintosh creator jef raskin s book shows how the web computers and information appliances can be made much easier to learn and use a computer science must read many thanks to generous contributor track workers on a hand car in the utah desert e h t anthony stereoview 7148 see enlargement and 3d stereo echo canyon utah with the rock that a j russell labeled great eastern in the background digital image restoration of railroad pictures the hand hewn ties are another giveaway that it s on the union pacific railroad location identified courtesy don d snoddy uprr also visit the national stereoscopic association search this site powered by freefind racing to build the pacific railroad so work on as though heaven was before you and hell behind you from a letter written by the central pacific s c p huntington to charley crocker dated july 1st 1868 previous site home site next site skip previous site random skip next site previous 5 sites list all sites next 5 this history ring site is owned by cprr org want to join the history ring skip prev prev next skip next random next 5 list sites more than 4 500 digitally restored railroad pictures to see thousands of pages of transcontinental railroad history museum entrance visit the exhibits slow internet 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