Description
Includes 173 artifacts and ephemera collected by Tom Martin to commemorate the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad,
celebrated at Promontory, Utah in 1869, and the operation of the Transcontinental route by the Central Pacific and Union
Pacific railroads, primarily between 1860 and 1899. There are an additional 4 items of movie memorabilia from Cecil B. DeMille's
1939 movie, "Union Pacific", the epic film which chronicled the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad.
Restrictions
Copyright has not been assigned to the California State Railroad Museum. All requests for permission to publish or quote from
manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the CSRM Library & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of
the CSRM as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which
must also be obtained by the reader.