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I wish I would have known more about the whole Transcontinental project back then. I didn't start with model railroading until about 1998 so I didn't know much at all about railroad stuff. I just knew about the Golden Spike stuff from history books. Had I known more then, I would have explored more. I think I might have still pics of the big fill area but I don''t remember for sure.

I doubted that anything I got was original. Even so, they did leave stuff laying around after their work so they weren't diligent about making sure they got everything. 

Back in '97, we took a trip out West. One of the places we visited was the Transcontinental Railroad "Golden Spike" site in Utah.
After the ceremony was over, I decided to head West and travel over the old Central Pacific roadbed once we left the National Park site. It was neat to me knowing that over 100 years ago, the old steam locos were traversing the same route I was on.
I had an all-wheel drive van so I often got off the beaten path when we went places.
I found some old spikes and tie plate bolts along the way. I wondered how old they were and if any were originals. During WWII, they  pulled up all the track to use the metal for the war.
I also have a video on Youtube from the ride on the old C. P. route.
That's the Great Salt Lake on the left.
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The video. Just imagine you are riding in the cab of a noisy, hissing, steaming, smoke belching 4-4-0 headed back to California. The very last part of the video, I took a detour up a hill to see what was on the other side.

The Santa Fe 307's are probably the most plentiful Bachmann locos out there. They came with the basic train sets.
There are lot of them for sale on EBay.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=bachmann+307&_sacat=0&_sop=15
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I couldn't find a Bachmann loco with that road number. Athearn makes a U. P. F7A with 1480 road number.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m570.l1313&_nkw=athearn++f9+1480+union+pacific&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&_odkw=athearn++f9+1480+union+pacific&_osacat=0

Some call certain veggies potatoes, some call them spuds, and some call them taters.
I sometimes call the E-Z Command box or it's DC counterpart a controller to differentiate between that and the power pack (or some say power supply) which I see as the black box that gets plugged into it and the outlet and provides the power for it to function.
When I was running my Lionel as a kid it was a transformer because that was all I ever heard it called. Back then, I didn't know anything about transforming AC to DC or vice versa.

I made this for someone on Facebook but it might be of interest to someone on here. With Bachmann's connector wires, I take a black magic marker and run a line on one of the two wires so I can keep them oriented to pos and neg.

I haven't seen that track before. I would say that if you can find a piece of O scale track, try it on there and see if if fits. If so, then you can buy O scale track. Bachmann's O scale track has 3 rails. There are other 2 rail O scale tracks out there if you Google "O scale 2 rail track"
From Google - "O gauge model railroad tracks typically have their rails spaced 1.25 in (31.75 mm) apart with the United States National Model Railroad Association (NMRA) standard allowing spacings between 31.75 mm and 32.64 mm."

This is the Dept. 56 City Trolley. Is this what you have?
https://www.google.com/search?as_q=&as_epq=department+56+trolley&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=&as_occt=any&as_filetype=&tbs=#fpstate=ive&oshop=apv&oshopproduct=pid:3062980393742151254,oid:3062980393742151254,iid:2192769013083346703,pvt:hg,pvo:3&pvs=0&vld=cid:8f5941e3,vid:nf8Ymls3fuY,st:0

Bachmann makes "O" scale E-Z Track which can be used for Lionel or MTH "bump and go"  trolleys.
https://shop.bachmanntrains.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=491_885

This is the way I have it set up.

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I used these connectors. The plug part is connected to the track wires. The two sockets are connected to the booster and dc controller.
No chance of having them both connected to the track at the same time.

The booster is not connected to track all the time. I remove the track plug from booster and to connect to DC controller.

The DC one I'm using says -
Hobby Transformer - Model:AC1601000 - Input:AC120V 60Hz 24W - OUTPUT:AC16V 1000mA 16VA - Made in China by Sandan
The DCC one going to E-Z Command says -
Toy Transformer - Model:SPS1601000 WU - Input:AC120V 60Hz 22W - OUTPUT:DC16V 1000mA 16VA - Made in China by Sandan

If it had a cab light, you would be able to see that there is no engineer. :-)

You can find a bunch of those locos on EBay for cheap.