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The iron mountain route fast mail train : 3 through express trains daily between St. Louis & Texas
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Image of a poster advertising the Iron Mountain Route of the Missouri Pacific Railroad with a lithographed vignette in the upper right of three children in a room decorated with a Christmas tree, with one boy writing the names of three Christmas trains on a folded blackboard and an infant pretending to drive a locomotive made of furniture; second lithographed vignette in the middle left of a perspective view of a steam locomotive on tracks in a winter scene; background ornamented with sprig of holly.
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(3) REPORT OF UP TRAINS
Manuscripts
Period April 22, 1870 through December 31, 1872. Double spread special printed form filled out in manuscript. Records Up trains, that is trains from Carson City, elevation 4615 feet to The Comstock, elevation at Virginia City terminus 6215 feet. For each train, on each day during the period, is recorded the loaded cars with cargo and consignee, as also the name of the conductor, the name of the locomotive and the departure and arrival at Mound House, Silver City and Gold Hill and the time of arrival at Virginia City.
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(6) TRAIN REPORTS
Manuscripts
Sunday January 28, 1877 to Saturday June 30, 1877. Manuscript. Reports trains to the Comstock with conductor, locomotive, number of cars, cargo and destination.
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Express train on Western Railroad. : (From a daguerreotype, made in 1842, under the direction of Charles Van Benthuysen.)
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Image of an eye-level side view of a steam locomotive train, tender, and cars, with a passenger car filled with travelers on tracks moving through the countryside.
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Great Lake Shore route : No ferries! No delays! The fastest limited trains in the world run via Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway and New-York Central & Hudson River R.R
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Image of a broadside with promotional descriptions and timetables for the Lake Shore Route with a wood-engraved image in the upper center of two steam locomotive trains labeled "Lake Shore & Michn. Southn." and one with the number "317" on its firebox door, passing on tracks, with a waterscape view of boats, shoreline, lighthouse, and clouds with lightning in the background, and onlookers waving to the train in the lower right.
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View of the first American railway train
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Image of an elevation view of the side of a railroad train of the Mohawk and Hudson Railway depicted in 1832 as a silhouette, with a steam locomotive, with a 2-2-0 wheel arrangement, tender with two barrels of wood and a pile of wood, and two attached carriages holding passengers, with doors labeled "M&H RPG No. 1" and "No. 2"; information of the "Names of Passengers, as far as can be ascertained" and "Particulars relating to the Locomotive Engine of the above Train" are printed in the bottom margin.
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