• Photo - Bushnell inspection dinner at Rock Creek
    Bushnell inspection dinner party enhanced
Photo - Bushnell inspection dinner at Rock Creek
Photo - Bushnell inspection dinner at Rock Creek

Photo - Bushnell inspection dinner at Rock Creek


1868
Stereo image on card stock of Cornelius S Bushnell (at the head of the table) and Union Pacific railroad personnel and family members around a table in a dinner car in Rock Creek, Wyoming during and inspection tour of the route.  As noted in the book, "Laramie Railroads", by Lawrence Ostresh & Jerry Hansen, in addition to subsidy bonds, the US government also provided land grants to help finance the Transcontinental Railroad, contingent upon proper inspection as determined by the inspection parties.
Photo by Andrew J. Russell.  Faded, blurred and yellowed condition, 6 3/4" x 3 1/4"
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