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	"Meeting of Engines, Laying Last Rail, Promontory." Charles R. Savage stereoview, May 10, 1869.
	"Completion of the Pacific Railroad" hand colored engraving, Harper's Weekly Newspaper
	Engraving of "The Last Spike" painting by Thomas Hill.
	"Cape Horn."  Carleton Watkins Cabinet Card.
	"Locomotive on Turntable." A. A. Hart Stereograph #139 taken from the main street of Newcastle.  Unfinished trestle.  4-6-0 Locomotive "Conness."
	"First Construction Train passing the Palisades. Ten Mile Canyon."  Nevada.   A. A. Hart stereoview #338.
	"Locomotive Falcon at Argenta, Nevada." CPRR's Lewis Metzler Clement (right) and UPRR's Jacob Blickensderfer (left) on the pilot of the C.P.R.R. "Falcon" #113 locomotive with a buffalo robe at Argenta, Nevada, March 1, 1869, inspecting the line as members of the U.S. Special Pacific Railroad Commission. (Pictured is CPRR First Assistant Chief Engineer Lewis Metzler Clement's personal copy of this photograph.)
	"Tunnel No. 15, looking West."  E. Muybridge stereoview #738.
	Map:  "The Overland Route to the Road of a Thousand Wonders: The Route of the Union Pacific & Southern Pacific from Omaha to San Francisco - A Journey of Eighteen Hundred Miles Where Once the Bison & the Indian Reigned" 1908.
	CPRR–UPRR Timetable Map, showing railroad land grants, Rand McNally, 1881.
	Rand McNally UPRR-CPRR Map from Traveler's Railroad Guide, 1882.
	Logo from Central Pacific Railroad Train Ticket.
	Pacific Railroad Bond, City and County of San Francisco, 1865.
	"John Chinaman on the Rail Road."  E. & H.T. Anthony Stereoview #7148.
	"Wood train and Chinamen in Bloomer Cut."  Houseworth Stereoview #1351.
	"Laborers and Rocks, near opening of Summit Tunnel."  Hart Stereoview #119 showing Chinese workers.
	"Railroad Passenger Coach, Interior." From Railroad Story Book: A Thousand Miles by Rail. McLoughlin Bros., New York, 1907.

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