- Be a Telegrapher: Telegraph operators needed special skills to send important messages for trains on the Transcontinental Railroad. Students learn how to send and receive telegraph messages like telegraphers from the 19th century!
- Letters From the Train: Transcontinental Railroad travelers marveled at the sites they saw as they traveled West on the train. They wrote letters describing their amazing adventure. Can you guess what they saw by filling in the blanks of traveler’s letters? Your answers may surprise you!
- Who Traveled on the Transcontinental Railroad? Nineteenth-century travelers rode the train for work, pleasure, and to start new lives. When travelers’ trunks get mixed up in baggage claim, students discover what those travelers brought with them on their journeys west.
- What was the nineteenth-century travel experience like? Find out by exploring our Central Pacific Railroad Passenger Station and ride a historic train after your program.
This program does not include admission to the Museum. It takes place inside the passenger station in Old Sacramento.