Title

Construction train on the Union Pacific Railroad, USA, 1868. Artist: Unknown

Caption

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 the country to the Pacific. The first rails were laid in Omaha, Nebraska, and the line was completed when it joined the Central Pacific Railroad at Promontory, Utah in May 1869. The railway was instrumental in bringing about the economic development of the American West.
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1868

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B63_177

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

30,0Mb (1,6Mb) / 13,1in x 8,9in / 3940 x 2661 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation building people male man men train country construction guy railway location century concept civil engineering expansion B&W MONOCHROME American West United States of America United States 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century American America USA Oxford Science Archive TGN Union Pacific Railroad Pacific Union photograph Unknown photograph