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Photograph of the Union Pacific bridge over the Missouri River

Photograph of the construction of the Union Pacific bridge over the Missouri River

Photograph of women and children on Council Bluffs riverfront with Union Pacific bridge in background

Photograph of of Union Pacific bridge

Over the Union Pacific bridge, pictured in the foreground above, passes the nation's transcontinental traffic. The bridge carries the passenger trains and most of the freight trains of all railroads between Council Bluffs and Omaha. In the background…

Union Pacific Depot, Omaha, Nebraska. Built in 1882.

Unloading railroad supplies on the banks of the Missouri River in Omaha in 1865.

On the reverse side: "Workers on the U.P. exchanging picks and shovel for rifles to repel an Indian attack."

Map showing tracks owned by the Union Pacific Railroad and the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad in the United States west of Chicago.

Union Pacific Railroad yards in Council Bluffs, looking towards the southwest. The road in the foreground where the railroad tracks cross is Ninth Avenue. The Golden Spike Monument is at middle right.

The Streamliner 'City of Los Angeles'; the Chicago and North Western - Union Pacific high speed eleven car streamline train started from Chicago this morning (Friday, May 1st) on a trial run to Omaha. It is shown as it stood in the North Western…

Transition from sledges, crowbars, and backbreaking labor to the modern rail machines shown here has put the business of maintaining a railroad's right of way into the realm of a science. And it's a science that's expensive. Union Pacific Railroad…

"Chief Red Cloud didn't want the 'Iron Horse' because it 'scared away the buffalo.'"

Caption written on the reverse side.

Union Pacific locomotive in a rail yard.

Nonpareil 3-66 written on the reverse side.

Train cars in the Union Pacific rail yard with the Union Pacific Transfer depot in the background.

The Union Pacific Transfer Depot, undated.

Union Pacific Railroad Steam Engine. Northern Class Steam Locomotive. Built in 1937 for freight and passenger service. Renumbered from 844.

The Union Pacific Railroad yards at Seventeenth Street and Fourteenth Avenue are a bit more glamorous. Trees have been planted along the tracks and all the light poles have been painted a light green. There also are flower pots hanging from each of…

Photograph of the Union Pacific Transfer. Depot and Hotel South 21st Street and Twelfth Avenue. Closed and torn down about 1935. Later site of United States Mail Terminal.
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