A native American man looking over the newly completed transcontinental railroad in Nevada, 1869
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A native American man looking over the newly completed transcontinental railroad in Nevada, 1869
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That was the beginning of the end of the “quiet” world.
I wish the US still did big projects like this to continue to improve the country. Instead we get roadwork that takes decades and a crumbling infrastructure.
he’s thinking “we are sooooo fuuuuuuuuhhhhhh…”
Among his people this was considered a “dick move”.
I drove alongside a span of it in Wyoming, and let me tell you, it looks exactly as it did 150 years ago – even the box cars I saw looked like they were over 100 years old. I was driving in my modern car with AC cranked, listening to Satellite Radio and using my GPS, and everything around me looked like I had transported to the wild west, it was nuts.
Does anyone know the current location of this on maps? Would be cool to see a then vs now
If you’d told me this was a slightly filtered screenshot from RDR2 I’d have 100% believed you.
What is his native language for “Whelp, there goes the neighborhood.”
Now where’s Mr. Bohannon?
” You have asked me many times about the white people… you always ask how many more are coming. There will be a lot my friend… more than can be counted.”
“Help me to know how many.”
“Like the stars.” (Dances With Wolves, 1990)
[Here](https://www.loc.gov/item/2005683020/) is the source of this image. Per there:
> **Title**
> Indian viewing railroad from top of Palisades. 435 miles from Sacramento
> **Names**
> Hart, Alfred A., 1816-1908, photographer
> **Created / Published**
> Sacramento, Calif. : Golden State Photographic Gallery, [between 1865 and 1869]
[Here](https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/alfred-hart-cprr-indian-gazes-on-new-world-1869-341-c-c474c7aa65) adds:
> This image was used as the cover for Martha Sandwiess’ “Print the Legend.”
> Alfred Hart (b. 1816, Norwich, CT – d. Alameda County, California, 1908) worked as an itinerant portrait and panorama painter for traveling productions before turning to photography in the late 1850s. He migrated West where he made an extraordinary series of Western Topographic Views as the official photographer documenting the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad from Sacramento, California to Promontory Point, Utah (1865 – 1869). Along with A.J. Russell and C. R. Savage he photographed the joining of the rails. Carleton Watkins purchased the negatives from Hart and published them under his imprint. Lawrence and Houseworth also published some of Hart’s work in the 1860s. Hart returned to painting as his primary medium after this period.
“I knew we shoulda bought those rifles”
*single teardrop*
Looks dope? Everything
To see a train for the first time must have been insane.
“Hehe, the train will pass soon and I’ll pee right on top hehehe”
I feel like he’s thinking. “This is the beginning of the end”
I wonder what he was thinking. Probably didn’t expect to be immortalized on something like the internet with random people lol.
Wonder what people will be looking at about us 150 years from now.
If he saw what it’s all become, his name would be Crying Clouds
I have to admit, as far as disturbing the scenic qualities of nature, trains aren’t too bad. The train tracks aren’t that big of an eyesore. I’m sure it’s not so great when a train is blasting through, but at least it’s not an 8 lane highway I guess.
Alright.. where is the colorized version?
I just saw this photo in the Ken Burns Buffalo documentary currently airing on PBS. Highly recommend.
~~I believe Teddy Roosevelt and Temoak Chief Joseph Gilbert made an agreement (treaty?) to get this railroad through Indian territory in Northern Nevada.~~
Here is a childhood photo of Joey’s daughter and my great great grandmother Edie.
[great great grandmother Edith Gilbert, Battle Mtn, NV, ~1992](https://imgur.com/a/BUTp49A)
e: A quick google of Joseph Gilbert shows me his title may have been Captain.
https://humanities.gbcnv.edu/omeka/items/show/87
I just imagine the gentleman thinking, “get off my fucking lawn”.
“Now, why didn’t I think of that?” – Native American, probably
Someone else pointed out that this was near Carin NV. I could be mistaken but I believe Amtrak’s California Zephyr uses this line. I’m checking now.
Yup, it’s the California Zephyr. I highly recommend this ride, BTW.
https://www.polrail.com/uploads/images/AMTRAK/Amtrak_California_Zephyr.jpg
We’ll put the casino right there
That shot of a trickle of water coming under the door… just before the flood hits….
beautiful and devastating
The arrow that killed the Old West.
Hell on Wheels. Great show that dramatizes the building of the railroad.
This goes hard as fuck man holy shit
I need to finally play RDR2…
Is that Colm O’driscoll preparing the train heist ?
“There goes the neighborhood”.
and a single tear rolled down his cheek
“Those crazy bastards really did it”
One. Single. Tear.
“There goes the neighborhood.”
A sense of loss, but also of possibility.
What a great picture
“There goes the neighborhood!”