This collection contains album pages with snapshot photographs recording a month long Canada-U.S. transcontinental railroad voyage taken in July and August 1922 by Mrs. and Mrs. Samuel Vauclain, their daughter, and granddaughter in their private car, "Manhattan." Photographs are not of the highest quality, but give a perspective to the rural landscape of western Canada and the American West in 1922. Additional material includes newspaper image of the family taken at Hotel St. Francis, San Francisco; train schedule for the trip; a typewritten agenda for August 4, the family's day in Chicago. In addition, there are some original negatives and modern photographic prints of various late nineteenth (Baldwin, Norris, Smith & Perkins, Winans) and twentieth century (Baldwin, General Motors) locomotives for different railroads (New York Central, Pennsylvania Railroad, Southern Railway). There are hand written captions in pencil (possibly by Samuel Vauclain).