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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

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