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Spring 2016 Historical Society newsletter.

Transmitting A List...of eastbound freight cars is Chief Clerk Odell Waffle, Route 4, and Asst. Supt. L.C. McDowell. Information is transmitted directly from punched cards.

Motive power and car shops offices have been combined in new quarters at the Chicago and North Western Railroad diesel shop building on Avenue G. Miss Letha Wadley, general clerk, works at her desk. Former quarters occupied by the two offices were…

Fishtail motion...is evident in derailed cars of Overland Limited passenger train. Several hundred feet of train is damaged.

An article titled "Railroads in Council Bluffs" by Andrew McMillen

Written for Council Bluffs Public Schools - March 20, 1936

Part of "Transportation and Council Bluffs: A Supplement to Iowa History"

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.

The Streamliner 'City of Los Angeles'; the Chicago and North Western - Union Pacific high speed eleven car streamline train started from Chicago this morning (Friday, May 1st) on a trial run to Omaha. It is shown as it stood in the North Western…