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Bridges U556z.tif
Photograph of Union Pacific bridge over Missouri River

Bridges U556za.tif
Photograph of Union Pacific bridge over the Missouri River

Bridges U556zc.tif
Photograph of the Union Pacific bridge over the Missouri River

Bridges U556zf.tif
Photograph of the construction of the Union Pacific bridge over the Missouri River

Bridges U556zl.tif
Photograph of of Union Pacific bridge

Dodge_1864_01_Jan_1864_01.pdf
General Dodge Papers - The War Period, Book 4
January 1864 (partial, please refer to "General Dodge Papers - Book 3 - December 1863 to January 1864" for the remainder)

For an index for Book 4, please refer to the "General Dodge Papers - Book 4…

Best_Pictures_Best_Stories_1957_7_2_1957_05.jpg
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.

Railroads U556b.tif
Union Pacific Railroad Steam Engine. Northern Class Steam Locomotive. Built in 1937 for freight and passenger service. Renumbered from 844.

Memorial S743.tif
Postcard. Steam Engine Memorial. 39th and West Broadway Council Bluffs.

Best_Pictures_1967_1970_10_8_1968_11.jpg
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…

Best_Pictures_1967_1970_10_8_1968_12.jpg
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…

Best_Pictures_1967_1970_3_26_1969_30.jpg
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…

1-Simons Print - 1st temp bridge  between C.B. and Omaha.tif
Consists of drawings made by Simons during railroad survey projects in Iowa and Nebraska beginning in 1853.

First temporary bridge between Council Bluffs and Omaha and the first train of cars crossing, Winter 1867.

1-Simons Print - G.M. Dodge's engineering camp near Crescent City.tif
Consists of drawings made by Simons during railroad survey projects in Iowa and Nebraska beginning in 1853.

GM Dodge Engineer Camp in Missouri River bottom near Crescent City Iowa. Sept 1853. Rock Island RR Survey. Sketched by George Simons, cook…

Dodge_Book 10_Part 1.pdf
General Dodge Papers - Southwest System Railroads - 1880-1883, Book 10

Texas & Pacific Railway.
New Orleans Pacific Railway.
Missouri Kansas & Texas Railroad.
International & [Great] Northern Railroad.
Mexican Oriental Railroad.
Fort Worth &…

Dodge_Book 11_Part 1.pdf
General Dodge Papers - Southwest System Railroads - 1884-1887, Book 11

Building of Southwest System of Railways and other Railroads.
Legislation Relating to Iowa Railroads.
Union Pacific Bridge.
Settlement of Secret Service Account with G. M.…

Dodge_Book 12_Part 1.pdf
General Dodge Papers - 1888-1889, Book 12

Address on Transcontinental Lines.
N. E. Dawson to W. H. M. Byers on G. M. Dodge.
Union Pacific.
President of Oregon Navigation Company Property.
Fort Worth & Denver City, Denver Texas & Fort Worth,…

Dodge_Book 13_Part 1.pdf
General Dodge Papers - 1890-1892, Book 13

Union Pacific Railway.
Oregon Navigation.
D. T. & G. Railway.
Ft. W. & D. C. Ry.
Colorado Central.
Fort Townsend & Seattle Ry.
Des Moines & Northwestern Railroad.
Union Pacific Denver & Gulf…

Dodge_Book 14_Part 1.pdf
General Dodge Papers - 1893-1896, Book 14

Union Pacific Ry.
Union Pacific Denver & Gulf Ry.
Des Moines Northern and Des Moines Northwestern.
Receivership of Union Pacific Railway.
Reorganization of Fort Worth & Denver City Ry.
Victor Coal…

Dodge_Book 15_Part 1.pdf
General Dodge Papers - 1897-1898, Book 15

Grand Marshall, President McKinley's Inauguration.
Grand Marshall, Dedication of Grant Tomb.
Spanish War.
Appointed Major General of Volunteers.
Offered Command of First Corps.

Index for Book 15…
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