USHistoryAtlas.com Primary Sources Transcontential Railroad Time Table Date # February 1881 Place # Boston, Massachusetts, Omaha, Nebraska, and San Francisco, California Type of Source # Daily Life Author # Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads Context # The completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869 allowed relatively rapid transportation across the United States. By 1881 thousands of people were using railroads to reach new homes in the West, as well as conduct business across the country and ship goods. Passengers could travel from Omaha to San Francisco, almost 1900 miles, in less than a week for between $45 to $100 (about $950 to $2100 in present dollars). Railroads would prove essential to the development of the West. Stations on Union Pacific Line Through Line Through Line (East to West) This line connected with IOWA: the Central Pacific at Council Bluffs Ogden and was used to NEBRASKA: Omaha, Summit Siding, Papillion, Millard, Elkhorn, Waterloo, cross the country. Valley, Riverside, Fremont, Ames, North Bend, Rogers, Schuyker, Benton, Ogden, Utah Columbus, Duncan, Silver Creek, Clark’s, Central City, Chapman’s, Grand Ogden was the nearest city to Promintory Point, where Island, Alda, Wood River, Shelton, Gibbon, Buda, Kearney Junction, Stevenson, the two railroads were first Elm Creek, Overton, Josselyn, Plum Creek, Cozad, Willow Island, Warren, Brady joined. Its station was Island, Maxwell, Gannett, North Platte, O’Fallon’s, Dexter, Alkali, Roscoe, made the meeting point for Ogalalla, Big Springs, Barton, Julesburg, Chappel, Lodge Pole, Sidney, the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific. Brownson, Potter, Dix, Antelope, Bushnell Cheyene Division; WYOMING TERRITORY: Pine Bluffs, Tracy, Egbert, Hillsdale, Atkins, Archer, Colorado Division Cheyenne, Colorado Junction, Otto, Granite Canon, Buford, Sherman, Tie These spur lines were used Siding, Harney, Rod Buttes, Fort Sanders, Laramie, Howell, Wyoming, Cooper’s to connect the main through line to Colorado as Lake, Lookout, Miser, Rock Creek, Como, Medicine Bow, Carbon, Simpson, well as connecting the old Percy, Edson, Walcott, Fort Steele, Grennville, Rawlins, Summit, Separation, Kansas Pacific Line Filmore, Creston, Latham, Wash-a-kie, Red Desert, Tipton, Table Rock, Bitter (bought by Union Pacific in 1880) to the West Coast. Creek, Black Buttes, Hallville, Point of Rocks, Thayer, Salt Wells, Baxter, Rock Springs, Wilkins, Green River, Bryan, Marsten, Granger, Church Buttes, Hampton, Carter, Bridger, Leroy, Piedmont, Aspen, Billiard, Evanston UTAH TERRITORY: Wahsatch, Castle Rock, Enory, Echo, Croydon, Weber, Peterson, Devil’s Gate, Uintah, Ogden Cheyene Division WYOMING TERRITORY: Cheyene COLORADO: Greeley, Evans, Plattesville, Brighton, Denver Colorado Division WYOMING TERRITORY: Cheyene, Colorado Junction COLORADO: Fort Collins, Loveland, Longmont, Boulder, Louisville, Golden, Arvada, Denver, Black Hawl, Central City, Idaho Springs, Georgetown NYSTROM HERFF JONES EDUCATION DIVISION page 1 of 4 Transcontinental Railraod Time Table USHistoryAtlas.com Primary Sources Stations of the Central Pacific Line (East to West) UTAH TERRITORY: Ogden, Bonneville, Bringham, Corinne, Quarry, Blue Creek, Promontory, Rozel, Lake, Monument, Seco, Kelton, Ombey, Matlin, Terrace, Bovine, Lucin NEVADA: Tecoma, Montello, Loray, Toana, Pequop, Otego, Independence, Moore’s, Cedar, Wells, Tulasco, Bishop’s, Deeth, Natchez, Halleck, Peko, Osino, Elko, Moleen, Carlin, Palisade, Ciuro, Be-o-wa-we, Shoshone, Argenta, Battle Mountain, Piute, Coin, Stone House, Iron Point, Golconda, Tule, Winnemucca, Rose Creek, Raspberry Creek, Mill City, Humboldt, Rye Patch, Oreana, Lovelock’s, Granite Point, Brown’s White Plains, Mirage, Hot Springs, Desert, Two Mile Station, Wadsworth, Salvia, Clark’s, Vista, Reno CALIFORNIA: Verdi, Essex, Mystic, Bronco, Boca, Prosser Creek, Proctor’s, Truckee, Stong’s Canon, Summit, Soda Springs, Cascade, Tamarack, Cisco, Emigrant Gap, Blue Canon, Shady Run, Alta, Dutch Flat, Gold Run, C.H. Mills, Colfax, Lander, N.E. Mills, Applegate, Clipper Gap, Auburn, Newcastle, Pino, Rocklin, Junction, Antelope, Arcade, American River Bridge, Sacramento, Webster, Davis, Tremont, Dixon, Batavia, Elmira, Cannon, Suisun, Teal, Mail Dock, Benicia, Port Costa, Valona, Vallejo Junction, Tormye, Piuole, Spbrante, San Pablo, Stege, Highland, Delaware Street, Stock Yards, Oakland (Sixteenth Street), West Oakland, Oakland Wharf, San Francisco NYSTROM HERFF JONES EDUCATION DIVISION page 2 of 4 Transcontinental Railraod Time Table USHistoryAtlas.com Primary Sources NYSTROM HERFF JONES EDUCATION DIVISION page 3 of 4 Transcontinental Railroad Time Table USHistoryAtlas.com Primary Sources All images Courtesy Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum, © 2008, CPRR.org NYSTROM HERFF JONES EDUCATION DIVISION page 4 of 4.