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72 relations: Andrew J. Russell, Box Elder County, Utah, Brigham City, Utah, Causeway, Cecil B. DeMille, Central Pacific Railroad, Charles Crocker, Chinese Americans, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Cut (earthmoving), Denver, Dust Bowl, Elevation, Feedlot, First Transcontinental Railroad, Geographic Names Information System, Golden spike, Golden Spike National Historic Site, Great Depression, Great Salt Lake, Hell on Wheels, History of Chinese Americans, Interior Plains, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Jupiter (locomotive), Kansas Pacific Railway, KUED, Labor Day, Lathrop, California, List of heritage railroads in the United States, Lucin Cutoff, Lucin, Utah, Minimum railway curve radius, Missouri River, Morrison-Knudsen, National Park Service, Ogden, Utah, Omaha, Nebraska, Photogrammetry, Promontory Mountains, Racism, Rail transport, Rail yard, Railway roundhouse, Railway turntable, Sacramento, California, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, San Joaquin River, Sea level, ..., Sierra Nevada (U.S.), Southern Pacific Transportation Company, Stanford University, Station master, Strasburg, Colorado, Telegraphist, Track (rail transport), Trestle bridge, Union Pacific (film), Union Pacific Missouri River Bridge, Union Pacific No. 119, Union Pacific Railroad, Union Station (Ogden, Utah), Union Stock Yards, United States Geological Survey, Utah Territory, War effort, Washington, D.C., West Coast of the United States, World Digital Library, World War II, 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Expand index (22 more) »
Andrew J. Russell
Andrew J. Russell (20 March 1829 in Walpole, New Hampshire – 22 September 1902 in Brooklyn, New York) was a 19th-century photographer of the American Civil War and the Union Pacific Railroad.
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Box Elder County, Utah
Box Elder County is a county on the northwestern edge of Utah, United States.
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Brigham City, Utah
Brigham City is a city in Box Elder County, Utah, United States.
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Causeway
In modern usage, a causeway is a road or railway on top of an embankment usually across a broad body of water or wetland.
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Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil Blount DeMille (August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was an American filmmaker.
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Central Pacific Railroad
The Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) was a rail route between California and Utah built eastwards from the West Coast in the 1860s, to complete the western part of the "First Transcontinental Railroad" in North America.
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Charles Crocker
Charles Crocker (September 16, 1822 – August 14, 1888) was an American railroad executive who founded the Central Pacific Railroad, which constructed the westernmost portion of the first transcontinental railroad, and took control with partners of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
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Chinese Americans
Chinese Americans, which includes American-born Chinese, are Americans who have full or partial Chinese ancestry.
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Council Bluffs, Iowa
Council Bluffs is a city in and the county seat of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States.
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Cut (earthmoving)
In civil engineering, a cut or cutting is where soil or rock material from a relative rise (elevated landscape) to an earlier section of the route is cut out to make way for a further section of the route, whether canal, road or railway line.
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Denver
Denver, officially the City and County of Denver, is the capital and most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Colorado.
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Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion (the Aeolian processes) caused the phenomenon.
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Elevation
The elevation of a geographic location is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface (see Geodetic datum § Vertical datum).
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Feedlot
A feedlot or feed yard is a type of animal feeding operation (AFO) which is used in intensive animal farming for finishing livestock, notably beef cattle, but also swine, horses, sheep, turkeys, chickens or ducks, prior to slaughter.
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First Transcontinental Railroad
The First Transcontinental Railroad (also called the Great Transcontinental Railroad, known originally as the "Pacific Railroad" and later as the "Overland Route") was a continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Omaha, Nebraska/Council Bluffs, Iowa with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay.
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Geographic Names Information System
The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database that contains name and locative information about more than two million physical and cultural features located throughout the United States of America and its territories.
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Golden spike
The golden spike (also known as The Last Spike) is the ceremonial 17.6-karat gold final spike driven by Leland Stanford to join the rails of the First Transcontinental Railroad across the United States connecting the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads on May 10, 1869, at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory.
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Golden Spike National Historic Site
Golden Spike National Historic Site is a U.S. National Historic Site located at Promontory Summit, north of the Great Salt Lake in Utah.
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Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.
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Great Salt Lake
The Great Salt Lake, located in the northern part of the U.S. state of Utah, is the largest salt water lake in the Western Hemisphere, and the eighth-largest terminal lake in the world.
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Hell on Wheels
The phrase "Hell on Wheels" was originally used to describe the itinerant collection of flimsily assembled gambling houses, dance halls, saloons, and brothels that followed the army of Union Pacific railroad workers westward as they constructed the First Transcontinental Railroad in 1860s North America.
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History of Chinese Americans
The history of Chinese Americans or the history of ethnic Chinese in the United States relates to the three major waves of Chinese immigration to the United States with the first beginning in the 19th century.
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Interior Plains
The Interior Plains is a vast physiographic region that spreads across the Laurentian craton of central North America.
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Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts
The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, formerly the Stanford University Museum of Art, and commonly known as the Cantor Arts Center, is a complimentary art museum on the campus of Stanford University in Stanford, California.
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Jupiter (locomotive)
The Jupiter (officially known as Central Pacific Railroad #60) was a 4-4-0 steam locomotive which made history as one of the two locomotives (the other being the Union Pacific ''No. 119'') to meet at Promontory Summit during the Golden Spike ceremony commemorating the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad.
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Kansas Pacific Railway
The Kansas Pacific Railway (KP) was a historic railroad company that operated in the western United States in the late 19th century.
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KUED
KUED, virtual channel 7 (UHF digital channel 42), is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member television station licensed to Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
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Labor Day
Labor Day in the United States is a public holiday celebrated on the first Monday in September.
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Lathrop, California
Lathrop is a city located in San Joaquin County, California, United States.
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List of heritage railroads in the United States
This is a list of heritage railways in the United States.
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Lucin Cutoff
The Lucin Cutoff is a 102-mile (164 km) railroad line in Utah which runs from Ogden to its namesake in Lucin.
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Lucin, Utah
Lucin (also known as Umbria Junction) is an abandoned railroad community in Box Elder County, Utah, United States, resettled by a single owner-resident, along the western side of the Great Salt Lake, northwest of Salt Lake City.
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Minimum railway curve radius
The minimum railway curve radius is the shortest allowable design radius for the centre line of railway tracks under a particular set of conditions.
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Missouri River
The Missouri River is the longest river in North America.
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Morrison-Knudsen
Morrison-Knudsen (MK) was an American civil engineering and construction company, with headquarters formerly in Boise, Idaho.
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National Park Service
The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations.
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Ogden, Utah
Ogden is a city and the county seat of Weber County, Utah, United States, approximately east of the Great Salt Lake and north of Salt Lake City.
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Omaha, Nebraska
Omaha is the largest city in the state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County.
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Photogrammetry
Photogrammetry is the science of making measurements from photographs, especially for recovering the exact positions of surface points.
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Promontory Mountains
The Promontory Mountains are a range in Box Elder County, Utah.
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Racism
Racism is the belief in the superiority of one race over another, which often results in discrimination and prejudice towards people based on their race or ethnicity.
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Rail transport
Rail transport is a means of transferring of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, also known as tracks.
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Rail yard
A rail yard, railway yard or railroad yard is a complex series of railroad tracks for storing, sorting, or loading and unloading, railroad cars and locomotives.
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Railway roundhouse
A roundhouse is a building with a circular or semicircular shape used by railroads for servicing and storing locomotives, and traditionally surrounds, or is adjacent to, a turntable.
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Railway turntable
In rail terminology, a railway turntable or wheelhouse is a device for turning railway rolling stock, usually locomotives, so that they can be moved back in the direction from which they came.
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Sacramento, California
Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat of Sacramento County.
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Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City (often shortened to Salt Lake and abbreviated as SLC) is the capital and the most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Utah.
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San Francisco
San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.
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San Joaquin River
The San Joaquin River is the longest river of Central California in the United States.
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Sea level
Mean sea level (MSL) (often shortened to sea level) is an average level of the surface of one or more of Earth's oceans from which heights such as elevations may be measured.
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Sierra Nevada (U.S.)
The Sierra Nevada (snowy saw range) is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin.
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Southern Pacific Transportation Company
The Southern Pacific (or Espee from the railroad initials- SP) was an American Class I railroad network that existed from 1865 to 1998 that operated in the Western United States.
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Stanford University
Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University, colloquially the Farm) is a private research university in Stanford, California.
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Station master
The station master (or stationmaster) is the person in charge of a railway station, particularly in the United Kingdom and many other countries outside North America.
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Strasburg, Colorado
Strasburg is a census-designated place (CDP) in Adams and Arapahoe counties in the U.S. state of Colorado.
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Telegraphist
A telegraphist (British English), telegrapher (American English), or telegraph operator is an operator who uses a telegraph key to send and receive the Morse code in order to communicate by land lines or radio.
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Track (rail transport)
The track on a railway or railroad, also known as the permanent way, is the structure consisting of the rails, fasteners, railroad ties (sleepers, British English) and ballast (or slab track), plus the underlying subgrade.
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Trestle bridge
A trestle (sometimes tressel) is a rigid frame used as a support, historically a tripod used both as stools and to support tables at banquets.
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Union Pacific (film)
Union Pacific is a 1939 American dramatic western film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea.
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Union Pacific Missouri River Bridge
The Union Pacific Missouri River Bridge is a rail truss bridge across the Missouri River connecting Council Bluffs, Iowa with Omaha, Nebraska.
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Union Pacific No. 119
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Union Pacific Railroad
The Union Pacific Railroad (or Union Pacific Railroad Company and simply Union Pacific) is a freight hauling railroad that operates 8,500 locomotives over 32,100 route-miles in 23 states west of Chicago and New Orleans.
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Union Station (Ogden, Utah)
Union Station, also known as Ogden Union Station, is a train station in Ogden, Utah, at the west end of Historic 25th Street, just south of the Ogden Intermodal Transit Center.
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Union Stock Yards
The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865.
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United States Geological Survey
The United States Geological Survey (USGS, formerly simply Geological Survey) is a scientific agency of the United States government.
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Utah Territory
The Territory of Utah was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from September 9, 1850, until January 4, 1896, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Utah, the 45th state.
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War effort
In politics and military planning, a war effort refers to a coordinated mobilization of society's resources—both industrial and human—towards the support of a military force.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.
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West Coast of the United States
The West Coast or Pacific Coast is the coastline along which the contiguous Western United States meets the North Pacific Ocean.
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World Digital Library
The World Digital Library (WDL) is an international digital library operated by UNESCO and the United States Library of Congress.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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1906 San Francisco earthquake
The 1906 San Francisco earthquake struck the coast of Northern California at 5:12 a.m. on Wednesday, April 18 with an estimated moment magnitude of 7.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme).
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promontory,_Utah
