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One Hurt In 11-Car Derailment of Train
Fishtail motion...is evident in derailed cars of Overland Limited passenger train. Several hundred feet of train is damaged.
Chicago & North Western Transportation Co.
A photo of the interior of the Chicago and North Western's repair shop. On back of photo:
C&NW Repair shop
on Ave G
This is CB
1-3-52
C&NW Repair shop
on Ave G
This is CB
1-3-52
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene: Back in 1909, this is how the Chicago North Western Railroad Depot at 12 S. 12th St. and Broadway looked. The old picture, complete with steam engine and train in front of the platform is from an old postal card from…
Today
Today...The Union Pacific Mail Terminal has taken on a streamlined appearance, having lost it's [sic] upper story in remodeling. it is still a mighty busy place, handling an ever increasing volume of mail from the many railroads that converge at the…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene: Back in 1889, the Council Bluffs Union Ticket office--and various express firms--occupied this building at 507 W. Broadway. Note how the men who ran the office are clothed. This old photo came from Bud Bascom of 1911…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--When the Illinois Central Railroad station was built here in the early 1900's, plans were to continue the road on to the west. That's the reason the station was built on such a generous scale--to house various…
Today...
Today...the bridge has dwindled in use. It is now a single track bridged used exclusively for river crossing of five or six freight trains a day. No pedestrian or auto traffic use the bridge. Only half of the bridge floor is floored with railroad…
Today...
Today...fast trains use the modern steel Union Pacific Railroad Bridge at approximately the same location. The bridge is above the reach of high water and boats pass underneath as they travel both up and down the deeper Missouri River.
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--This was a temporary Missouri River crossing of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad in 1872. The bridge was raised above ice level on pilings. During the summer months railroad cars were reportedly ferried…
Today
Today...diesel locomotives like this switch engine in the Union Pacific yard move smoothly across millions of miles of U.S. tracks. Burning of oil has cut down on coal consumption to the point where cinders are becoming scarce for city streets. …
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--This is one of the early "Iron Horses" that chugged into Council Bluffs as the city became a leading railroad point shortly before the turn of the century. The billowing black smoke and the old fashioned "coal car"…
Today
Today...a modern building, remodeled in 1938, has replaced the old brick terminal. The hotel is gone. Diesel trains from eight of the nations leading railroads pull into the unloading sheds where the mail is thrown into automatic converyers[sic]. …
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
This is the Council Bluffs Mail Terminal as it appear in 1887, when it was known as the Union Pacific Transfer. A hotel, one of the finest in the nation, was housed in the three-story brick building. It was patronized largely by railroad workers…
Flood of 1952 File #6
Empty railroad tracks
Engineer dies in train crash
Scattered At Impact...in fatal train wreck near Pacific Junction, empty coal cars of parked train lie jumbled with those of northbound train that hit it. Five units of the 100-car parked train and 12 of the 110-car northbound train derailed in the…
Bicentennial Engine Here
Servicing equipment on the Milwaukee Road's "America's Bicentennial" engine was one of Willard Johnson's jobs Friday. The locomotive stopped for service in Council Bluffs en route to another point on the Milwaukee system.
Looking For Trouble
Tons of diesel locomotive above him doesn't bother this Burlington Railroad yard man as he checks the alignment of the engine's wheels. The lead wheels on the three trucks of a double diesel unit dropped off the track near Main Street and Eleventh…
Make-Believe Trains
Readers who squint--and squint hard--and imagine themselves atop a railroad trestle looking over the yards, can almost believe that these old ties are long, shiny-white passenger trains coming from the passenger station. The damages rails, unlike…
Reflection
This pagoda-like structure casts a dark reflection in a nearby puddle, perhaps because its useful days are gone. There was a time, when the coal chute's concrete legs weren't chipped and surrounded by a crop of weeks, that this was the center of…
37 Cars Of Milwaukee Derailed Near Persis
A Huge Cleanup Job...faced Milwaukee work crews as they started removing wreckage of the 37-car derailment at the Mosquito Creek bridge near Persia. A section of the badly damaged bridge is visible in the center of the picture.