Since the Chicago Great Western Railroad has been taken over by the Chicago and North Western, the Great Western yards are now being stripped of rails and ties. A crew of seven college students and regular employes [sic] started to dismantle the…
Once loose, the rails and ties are lifted by a crane into a car. This scene is just east of Highway 375 overpass. The job is expected to take most of the summer to complete. Photos by Jack kennedy.
Old Fire Well...at Main Street and Broadway is being uncovered by power shovel before it is filled in with sand and covered up permanently. Note the spectators at left. Traffic in background is being routed off Broadway at Fourth Street.
Over the Union Pacific bridge, pictured in the foreground above, passes the nation's transcontinental traffic. The bridge carries the passenger trains and most of the freight trains of all railroads between Council Bluffs and Omaha. In the background…
The Union Pacific Railroad yards at Seventeenth Street and Fourteenth Avenue are a bit more glamorous. Trees have been planted along the tracks and all the light poles have been painted a light green. There also are flower pots hanging from each of…
Looking At First Pier...completed for the Interstate Highway 80 bridge over the Missouri River here is James Presnell, resident construction engineer for the Iowa Highway Commission.
New Diesel Engine House...whose site is roughly shown here is part of a $2,500,000 improvement project for the Union Pacific Railroad yards in Council Bluffs. Access tracks to the new engine house will necessitate relocation of the stock yards, lower…
Junker autos . . . are baled and sheared at the rate of 800 a day in the new giant machine that just went into operation at the Alter Company yard, 2603 Ninth Ave. An auto, minus motor and wheels, is loaded into a hopper. It will hold four cars.
Proposed Ward Map...would have 15 precincts, instead of the present 19. The Fifth Ward would be reduced to two precincts, the First Ward to three precincts and the Third Ward to two precincts. Compare this map with the present one, printed below.