Transportation -- History -- Archival resources -- Environmentalism
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Canal Zone railroad crosstie
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31275038202462]
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: [Barcode: 31275038202025]
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