Lightning Express! New arrangement May 1st 1876 through trains daily between Virginia and San Francisco.
Item #7971
21+"x14+" poster; salmon paper; locomotive vignette; framed. Printed by H. S. Crocker Co. Print. [Virginia City]: Virginia & Truckee Railroad, 1876.The Central Pacific Railroad was reluctant to allow its sleeping cars to run over the precipitous Virginia and Truckee grades and high trestle, until one day George Pullman came to Virginia City in his car, after which the Central Pacific relaxed and through trains with sleeping cars were put into operation between San Francisco and Virginia City. Hint of fading, else fine. . |
