Union Pacific Railroad Construction Photos

By Angela Cotey | June 22, 2012

| Last updated on November 23, 2020

Author and Historian John Hankey tells you the incredible story of 'Transcontinental Transformation' in the August 2012 issue of Trains magazine. Check out more construction photos of the Class I railroad that turned 150 years old in 2012

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Casement Brothers construction train used during the building of the Union Pacific Railroad. Three 4-4-0s were the power this day.

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Casement Brothers camp train during the construction of the UP. Note the barely finished cottonwood logs stacked as ties to the left and the scant ballast, probably rock spoil from the hill ahead.

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Track construction at Bitter Creek, Wyo., during construction of the UP.

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