I hope you’ve enjoyed the pictorial journey we’ve taken on the Western half of the Transcontinental Railroad, the Central Pacific Line. May 10, 1869, represented a huge milestone in U.S. History. It was the day that linked East to West.

Here is a list of links to the entire series of blog posts.

Happy 150th, TCRR! Part 1 TCRR Terrain

Happy 150th, TCRR! Part 2 TCRR Infrastructure

Happy 150th, TCRR! Part 3 TCRR Methods

Happy 150th, TCRR! Part 4 TCRR People

Happy 150th, TCRR! Part 5 TCRR’s Western Route

Map and Profile of the Pacific Railroad, C.H. Wells, 1867, Harpers Weekly.  Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. Digitized and simplified, with additional detail and color added, c. 2017 by Carolyn VanGorkom.  Used by permission. A hand-drawn version of this image originally appeared in Transcontinental Runaway, c. 2011 by Carolyn VanGorkom.

Featured image credit: Political cartoon from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, May 29, 1869, by Frank Beard, Library of Congress. Cropped. Click link for full view.