dots and dashes' of printed Morse code and the first practical use was to identify railroad boxcars? To bring out the 3-Deffect, move your cursorīack and forth across the picture's edge:ĭid youknow that punched railroad tickets were the forerunners of computers?ĭid you know that supermarket bar code labels were originally 'just extended. Hart documented the CPRRconstruction in 364 stereoviews. Sacramento photographer and artist AlfredA. (Purchasea poster showing the famous A.J. The telegraphsignaled a waiting nation: ' DONE!' The first transcontinental railroad was completed when the rails of the Union Pacific, reaching westward from Omaha, Nebraska, and those of the Central Pacific Railroad, reaching eastward from Sacramento, California were joined, completing the coast-to-coast connection. (Detail of Savage and Ottinger Stereoview, ' Engineersshaking hands.')Ĭhief Engineers for CPRR ( Samuel Skerry Montague) and UPRR ( GrenvilleM.

Joiningof the Rails, May 10, 1869, Promontory,Utah William Abraham Bell, Newspaper, 1866Ĭompletion of the Pacific Railroad, May 10, 1869 There are 10 spikes to a rail, 400 rails to a mile, 1,800 miles to San Francisco - 21,000,000 times those sledges to be swung: 21,000,000 times are they to come down with their sharp punctuation before the great work of modern America is complete.' – Dr. It is played in triple time, 3 strokes to the spike. close behind the first gang come the gaugers, spikers, and bolters, and a lively time they make of it. Less than thirty seconds to a rail for each gang, and so four rails go down to the minute. At the word of command the rail is dropped in its place, right side up with care, while the same process goes on at the other side of the car.

Two men seize the end of a rail and start forward, the rest of the gang taking hold by twos, until it is clear of the car. 'A light car, drawn by a single horse, gallops up to the front with its load of rails. Use of this Web siteconstitutes acceptance ofthe UserAgreement which permits personal use web viewing only no copying arbitration no warranty. Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum

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