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Scenes At Banquet For Jeffers
With a wide grin, William M. Jeffers looks up while inspecting this "magnificent" iron lung which was presented to him at the banquet in his honor at the Ak-Sar-Ben coliseum, Saturday evening. He will later present it to a Salt Lake City hospital.
Jeffers, W.M.
President, Union Pacific
U.P.'s William M. Jeffers . . . "greatest railroader alive."
Operating Head Of U.P.
President of the Union Pacific railroad is William M. Jeffers, who started railroading with the Union Pacific as a messenger and call boy at North Platte, Neb. Later he was progressively named telegrapher, clerk, chief dispatcher at North Platte,…
INRIP Development Area
This air photo, looking eastward, shows the newest industrial development area in - and adjoining - the Iowa-Nebraska River Industrial Park (INRIP) in Southwest Council Bluffs. (1) This is the six-acre tract purchased for the $400,000 expansion for…
Trackage In:
Union Pacific Railroad trackage now serves the Iowa-Nebraska River Industrial Park in the Southwest part of Council Bluffs. Peavey Elevator Co. can be seen in the background.
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.
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. …
Golden Spike/Golden Spike Days
A major attraction of UP's Golden Spike Centennial Expo Train that will visit Council Bluffs Sept. 26-27-28 is the colorful Expo car. It houses 19 displays telling the story of the building of the railroad from the earliest surveys right up to the…
Golden Spike/Golden Spike Days
Expo Train Coming to Bluffs...Union Pacific Railroad's Golden Spike Centennial Expo train will visit Council Bluffs this Friday, Saturday and Sunday and will be on display in the U.P. yards south of the Golden Spike monument, Ninth Avenue and…
Golden Spike/Golden Spike Days
The Golden Spike Monument, Council Bluffs, IA
April 1939
April 1939
The Wedding Of The Rails
On May 10th, 1869, the last spike . . a Golden Spike . . was driven and America was united by the transcontinental Pacific Railway. The Union Pacific's locomotive No. 119 and the Central Pacific's "Jupiter" inched together, finally touching nose to…
Action Group Would Like To Move The Golden Spike - To 'More Suitable' Location
Golden Spike . . . Ninth Avenue and Twenty-first Street
Seek $2000 to Renovate Golden Spike
Sketch Of Plans . . . for the Golden Spike monument. The drawing at left shows how the Junior Chamber of Commerce will beautify the grounds. The sketch at right is a perspective of the monument.
In Council Bluffs, You May Stand In Abe's Footprints
Golden Spike Monument . . . commemorates completion of the first transcontinental railroad.
Beauties And History
In preparation for the "Union Pacific" motion picture, Cecil De Mille did a great deal of research work, necessarily. His delving into history took him into the old Harper magazine, and he is shown here with the star of the picture, Barbara Stanwyck,…
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…
Union Pacific Transfer
Photograph of the Union Pacific Transfer. Depot and Hotel South 21st Street and Twelfth Avenue. Closed and torn down about 1935. Later site of United States Mail Terminal.
Council Bluffs history summary
Three documents summarizing the history of Council Bluffs, Iowa. Prepared by staff of the Council Bluffs Public Library at the request of staff from the Council Bluffs Community School District.
Topics include Caldwell's Camp, the Mormon Trail,…
Topics include Caldwell's Camp, the Mormon Trail,…