Ten-Miles Canon, Nevada

This image from the October 16, 1869 issue of Harper's Weekly depicts a Central Pacific Railroad passenger train traveling through Ten-Mile Canyon in Nevada. Just months after the driving of the "golden spike," the transcontinental railroad was in operation ferrying passengers through some of the sublime, dramatic landscape of the west.

THE CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD—PASSENGER TRAIN PASSING THE PALISADES, TEN-MILES CANON, NEVADA.—[See Page 670.]