Includes information on Promontory Point, the Pacific Railroad, the Union Pacific Railroad, The Central Pacific Railroad, the transcontinental railroad, etc.

This book by Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg focuses on the beginning's of San Francisco (Yerba Buena) and follows the city's history up to the time just before the 1906 San ...

The work of many of the most famous railroad photographers is represented in hundreds of illustrations that went into this multifaceted portrait of the line's development.

Portrays 125 years of steam engine operations on the railroad.

"The evidence is overwhelming that George M. Pullman was, in his day, the foremost prophet of the good life and loomed largest among the opulent carbuilders in the general ...

Private Pullmans were once the hallmark of affluence and social success.