Illustration. Printed caption: "The famous Quaker Oats railway train which recently made the trip from Iowa to the Pacific Slope." From Frank Leslie's Weekly.
Text from image: "Contract 1068. 292ft. Freight Ship. Driving first Rivet. Mr. Milton O. Jackson - President Philadelphia and Norfolk S.S. Company. Mr. A. G. Spiegelhalter - V.P. and General Manager, Pusey and Jones Corporation."