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Central Pacific Rr Photographic History Museum: Credit Mobilier

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a chapter from a book by Edward Winslow Martin, published in 1873, which lays out what Credit Mobilier was and how being associated with the company and its stock became such a scandal to members of Congress in 1872.
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Cprr Photographic History Museum: Builders of the Central Pacific Railroad

For Students 9th - 10th
This chapter from "The First Transcontinental Railroad" by John Debo Galloway contains biographies of the important men who conceived of the railroad, found funds for the line, and engineered the construction.
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Cprr Photographic History Museum: Constructing the Central Pacific Railroad

For Students 9th - 10th
From a book written by a civil engineer, John Debo Galloway, this article discusses the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad including construction methods, problems, and the eventual meeting of the rails at Promontory Point.
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Carbutt and the Union Pacific's Grand Excursion

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides information on the Union Pacific Railroad's grand excursion to the 100th Meridian.
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Cprr History Museum: Pacific Railroad Explorations and Surveys of 1853 54

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides information and documents of Jefferson Davis, George McClellan and the War Department's Pacific Railroad explorations and surveys of 1853 to 1854.
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Cprr Photographic History Museum: The Pacific Railroad Unopen

For Students 9th - 10th
From the September, 1869, magazine, "Overland Monthly", is this article by Robert L. Harris who traveled the route of the Central Pacific Railroad before it was officially opened, and wrote a description of the scenery along the route.
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Cprr History Museum: Nelsons' Pictorial Guide Books: Central Pacific Railroad

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains Nelson's pictorial guide-books, a fascinating look at the journey on the Central Pacific Railroad from Utah to California, including time schedules and descriptions of scenery.
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Cprr Photographic History Museum: Fusang: The Chinese Who Built America

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides excerpts from "Fusang: The Chinese Who Built America: The Chinese Railroad Men" by Stan Steiner. Describes how the Chinese contributed to the construction of the transcontinental railroad.
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Cprr History Museum: Chinese Laborers and Construction of the Central Pacific

For Students 9th - 10th
An article from the Utah Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 1, by George Kraus, recounts the decision to use Chinese laborers in building the Central Pacific Railroad. Many primary source documents included as well as supplemental direct quotes in...
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Cprr History Museum: Joint Committee to Investigate Chinese Immigration

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains the text of the report of the joint special committee to investigate Chinese immigration.
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Cprr History Museum: Abstract From the 1862 Annual Report

For Students 9th - 10th
Here is the explanation of how the land grants given to the railroads through the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 worked in the text from the General Land Office to the Department of the Interior.
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Cprr Photographic History Museum: Car Builder's Dictionary, 1884

For Students 9th - 10th
Here you will find drawings from the 1884 book which details the various train cars in use at the time. There are drawings of two Pullman rail cars, as well as "emigrant sleeping cars," which were gave free transportation to emigrants...
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Cprr History Museum: Pacific Railroad Acts

For Students 9th - 10th
See a copy of the document that enacted legislation for the development of a transcontinental railroad. Included is the text of the document also.
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Cprr Photographic History Museum: The Postal History of the Pacific Railroad

For Students 9th - 10th
This site deals mostly with the history of mail sent across the country in the late 19th century.
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The Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
If you are researching the Central Pacific Railroad or the importance of photography in the recording of our social and technological history, this site is for you. You will find plenty of topic photos and good information about the...
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Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
An extraordinarily rich collection of photos, stereographs, engravings, maps, and documents. Many 19th century accounts of building and traveling on the railroad, plus travel guides and government documents.
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Cprr History Museum: Chinese American Contribution to Transcontinental

For Students 9th - 10th
In April of 1999, Representative John T. Doolittle delivered a speech before the United States House of Representatives commemorating the contribution of Chinese-Americans to the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad. This site...
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Cprr Photographic History Museum: Driving the Last Spike at Promontory, 1869

For Students 9th - 10th
In-depth look at the ceremony at Promontory Point upon the completion of the transcontinental railroad. The author discusses the preparation for the ceremony, the use of four ceremonial spikes, and what became of them. From an article in...
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Cprr History Museum: Eastward to Promontory

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Central Pacific Railroad provides an extensive and comprehensive article about surveying the route for the railroad, the problems with construction, and the men behind the idea of the railroad. Hyperlinks to additional...
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Cpr Photographic History Museum Alfred Hart and the Illustrated Traveler's Map

For Students 9th - 10th
This article written by Peter E. Palmquist describes the photographs taken by Albert A. Hart as he documented the building of the Central Pacific Railroad and then helped publicize it.
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Cprr: Lewis Metzler Clement: A Pioneer of the Central Pacific Railroad

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides biographical information on Lewis Metzler Clement, the chief engineer for the Central Pacific Railroad, who both designed much of the route and supervised construction of the railroad. Includes several primary sources ranging...
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Cprr Photographic History Museum: High Cost and Challenge of Building the Cprr

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains the text of a Lewis M. Clement's 1887 statement to the U.S. Pacific Railway Commission, which gives a clear and succinct accounting of the costs incurred and the problems encountered in building the Central Pacific Railroad.
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Cpr Photographic History Museum: Nitroglycerine

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the use of nitroglycerine in the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad.
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Cprr Photographic History Museum: Tunnels of the Pacific Railroad

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers an abstract from Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering Magazine from 1870 from a paper by John R. Gilliss. A comprehensive look at the tunnels built along the route of the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific...