Photos from a Joslyn Art Museum exhibit that's on display through Jan. 6, 2019. “Promontory Trestle Work and Engine No. 2,” by Andrew J. Russell. This albumen silver print was taken in 1869 ...

The three spikes that united the Transcontinental Railroad at Promontory Summit, Utah, on May 10, 1869, are now on display at Joslyn Art Museum. For the first time in almost 150 years, the ...

Building west from Omaha after President Abraham Lincoln approved legislation to build a railroad across the frontier, the Union Pacific railroad laid the first tracks of the Transcontinental ...

Building west from Omaha after President Abraham Lincoln approved legislation to build a railroad across the frontier, the Union Pacific railroad laid the first tracks of the Transcontinental ...