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Chicago_&_North_Western_Transportation_Co_1_3_1952_001.jpg
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

Railroads C497b.tif
Photograph of C.G.W. Railroad Grade at Bennett Avenue in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Railroads C497a.tif
Photograph of C.G.W. Railroad Grade at Little Mosquito Creek in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Railroads C678.jpg
Photograph of a C. M. & St. Paul Railroad engine. 6 men in the photograph. Trapman, foreman; Jimmy Andrews, inspector; George Hickman, fireman; Lawrence Casey, engineer; Geiser, switchman; Chris Bader, engine foreman.

Railroads B875.tif
Photograph of Burlington Passenger Depot, April 10, 1897

dodgebiov5.pdf
Vol 5 of 5 - Biography of Major General Grenville M. Dodge from 1831 to 1871 : written and compiled by himself at different times and completed in 1914, in five typewritten volumes.
5 v. (1227 leaves) ; 23 x 28 cm.

dodgebiov4.pdf
Vol 4 of 5 - Biography of Major General Grenville M. Dodge from 1831 to 1871 : written and compiled by himself at different times and completed in 1914, in five typewritten volumes.
5 v. (1227 leaves) ; 23 x 28 cm.

dodgebiov3.pdf
Vol 3 of 5 - Biography of Major General Grenville M. Dodge from 1831-1871 : written and compiled by himself at different times and completed in 1914, in five typewritten volumes.
5 v. (1227 leaves) ; 23 x 28 cm.

dodgebiov2.pdf
Vol 2 of 5 - Biography of Major General Grenville M. Dodge from 1831-1871 : written and compiled by himself at different times and completed in 1914, in five typewritten volumes.
5 v. (1227 leaves) ; 23 x 28 cm.

dodgebioindex.pdf
Vol 1 of 5 (and Index) - Biography of Major General Grenville M. Dodge from 1831 to 1871 :written and compiled by himself at different times and completed in 1914, in five typewritten volumes.
5 v. (1227 leaves) ; 23 x 28 cm.

Bicentennial_6_13_1975_05.jpg
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.

Railroads B335d.jpg
Back to the Rails celebration banquet. Sept. 24, 1940. W. P. Kennedy, V. P. of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen.

Railroads B335b.jpg
Back to the Rails celebration banquet. Sept 24, 1940. William Jeffers President Union Pacific and E. V. Gustafson.

Railroads B335a.jpg
Back to the Rails celebration banquet. Sept. 24, 1940. Robert R. O'Brien and Gov. George A. Wilson.

Chicago_&_North_Western_Transportation_Co_3_14_1960_007.jpg
Old No. 5...emerges through a cloud of swirling snow with its last string of passenger cards for Council Bluffs

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.

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.
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