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Canal Zone railroad crosstie
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0070
Abstract
Section of railroad crosstie from the first railroad in Panama; "It was necessary to bore holes for the spikes owing to hardness [of the lignum vitae used for the tie]".
Dates:
circa 1855
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Railroad commemorative stone
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0048
Abstract
Section of rail of the first railroad in America (1826, Massachusetts), attached to a granite block.
Dates:
1826
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections