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List of Union Pacific Railroad civil engineers 1863 to 1869 information


Andrew J. Russell photograph of some of the civil engineers who worked on the Union Pacific (1863-1869). Sixteen men are standing in the photograph. The man standing on the left was one of several railroad contractors who built the road, General "Jack" Casement

This is a partial list of Union Pacific railroad civil engineers who worked on the Union Pacific railway in its initial construction from Council Bluffs, Iowa to Promontory Summit, Utah from its groundbreaking on December 1, 1863, to its completion on May 10, 1869.

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List of Union Pacific Railroad civil engineers 1863 to 1869

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partial list of Union Pacific railroad civil engineers who worked on the Union Pacific railway in its initial construction from Council Bluffs, Iowa to Promontory...

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First transcontinental railroad

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line built between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Council Bluffs, Iowa, with the Pacific coast at the Oakland...

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Central Pacific Railroad

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spike", connecting the western railroad to the Union Pacific Railroad at Promontory, Utah, was hammered on May 10, 1869. Coast-to-coast train travel in eight...

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Union Pacific Railroad

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The Union Pacific Railroad (reporting marks UP, UPP, UPY) is a Class I freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over 32,200 miles (51...

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History of the Union Pacific Railroad

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history of the Union Pacific Railroad stretches from 1862 to the present. For operations of the current railroad, see Union Pacific Railroad; for the...

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List of Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks

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The following is a list of Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks as designated by the American Society of Civil Engineers since it began the program in...

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Northern Pacific Railway

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The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was a transcontinental railroad that operated across the northern tier of the western United States,...

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Nothing Like It in the World

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Nothing Like It In the World is a narrative history of the planning and construction of the Pacific Railroad during the 1860s which connected the San Francisco...

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American Civil War

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The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North")...

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History of rail transportation in the United States

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eastward and Union Pacific Railroad working westward combined to complete in 1869 the major breakthrough First transcontinental railroad, which linked...

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Union Army

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American Civil War, the United States Army, the land force that fought to preserve the collective Union of the states, was often referred to as the Union Army...

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Leland Stanford

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who migrated to California during the Gold Rush and built a business empire. He was an influential executive of the Central Pacific Railroad and later the...

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Pacific Mail Steamship Company

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Pacific and Union Pacific railroads met in Utah in 1869, the profitability of the Pacific Mail on the run from Panama to San Francisco ended. Many of...

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Union Club of the City of New York

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and recipient of the Medal of Honor E. H. Harriman (1848–1909), railroad magnate Adolphe Meyer Chief of the Union Club, writer, President of the philharmonic...

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Great Railroad Strike of 1877

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The Great Railroad Strike of 1877, sometimes referred to as the Great Upheaval, began on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, after the Baltimore and...

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Marshall Farnam Hurd

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(1823–1903) was an American civil engineer who was part of the effort to build the Union Pacific railroad to Promontory Point, Utah in 1869. Hurd was present at...

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American frontier

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of the Corps of Topographical Engineers 1838–1863 (2004) David Haward Bain, Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad New York: Penguin...

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Presidency of Abraham Lincoln

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member of the recently established Republican Party elected to the presidency. Lincoln successfully presided over the Union victory in the American Civil War...

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William Jackson Palmer

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largest network of narrow gauge railroad in the United States. They were ultimately absorbed by the 21st century Union Pacific Railroad. Palmer and Bell...

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List of people who caught yellow fever

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of Louisiana of New France, died in 1706, perhaps of yellow fever. Theodore Judah, American railroad and civil engineer, died of yellow fever in 1863...

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List of boiler explosions

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August 1948. p. 969. Kratville, William W.; Bush, John E. (1995). The Union Pacific Type, Volume II. Omaha, Nebraska. pp. 282–289. LCCN 90082171.{{cite...

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Napoleon Bonaparte Buford

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1883) was an American soldier, Union general in the American Civil War, and railroad executive. He was the half-brother of the famous Gettysburg hero, John...

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List of Norwich University alumni

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Navigation and Railroad Company and New York State Senate Grenville Dodge 1850 – chief engineer of the Union Pacific Railroad, Civil War General, US...

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John Aaron Rawlins

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Rawlins (February 13, 1831 – September 6, 1869) was a general officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War and a cabinet officer in the Grant...

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