This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Union Pacific Museum Links Past and Present in Omaha
The Union Pacific museum in Omaha preserves a vivid history of the West and the railroad. Relics range from the Promontory telegram of 1869 to famous figures, livestock branding irons, and Civil War era photographers, illustrating how the railway shaped American expansion and wartime mobilization.
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Union Pacific Museum
Omaha
Neb
Promontory Summit
Grenville M. Dodge
Union Pacific Railroad
Oliver Ames
U. P
History of Transportation
Annals of America
United States
Atlantic
Pacific
Dodge
Tokyo
Hitler
Brigham Young
Church of the Latter Day Saints
Mormons
Salt Lake City
Ruth Hamilton
Crow Dog
George
Montana
Union Pacific
Big Nose George
Joseph Rankin
Joe Rankin
Old Jim Bridger
West
Argentina
Pampas
California
trans-Missouri
Asa Whitney
George Francis Train
Thomas C. Durant
Abraham Lincoln
Congress
Missouri River
Lincoln
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Springer Harbaugh
Pennsylvania
Alexander Gardner
A. J. Russell
William H. Jackson
Savage
Ottinger
U. P. Museum
Promontory Point
Utah
Central Pacific
C. R. Savage
Carl R. Gray
National Capital
Washington
Bill” Jeffers