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Urge Reopening of McMillen Unit; 430 Sign Petition Given School Board
Reopening of McMillen School...would include only that part to the left of the dotted line. The older front part would either be razed or walled off to prevent its use. The building is now used for storage and repair shop for school equipment.
Urge Change in Voting Precincts; Demo Chief Files Plan With Council
Proposed Ward Map...would have 15 precincts, instead of the present 19. The Fifth Ward would be reduced to two precincts, the First Ward to three precincts and the Third Ward to two precincts. Compare this map with the present one, printed below.
Upper Reservoir - Water Works - Fairmount Park
Photograph of Upper Reservoir, Water Works and Fairmount Park. Located at the top of Glen Avenue. Two million gallon concrete storage tank located on this site.
Upper Broadway
Photograph of Upper Broadway. East from approximately Fourth Street.
Updike Grain Co. postcard
Postcard of Updike Grain Co. elevator. From the back, "This elevator owned by the Updike Grain Company, is buy one of Council Bluffs' 14 elevators. It is constructed of concrete and steel, a capacity of 1,500,000 bushels, with operating capacity…
Up too 800 a day. Hungry monster eats old autos
Junker autos . . . are baled and sheared at the rate of 800 a day in the new giant machine that just went into operation at the Alter Company yard, 2603 Ninth Ave. An auto, minus motor and wheels, is loaded into a hopper. It will hold four cars.
UP Plans 2 1/2 Million Program For Bluffs
New Diesel Engine House...whose site is roughly shown here is part of a $2,500,000 improvement project for the Union Pacific Railroad yards in Council Bluffs. Access tracks to the new engine house will necessitate relocation of the stock yards, lower…
Unique Summer Programs At Iowa Deaf - From Surveys To Assembly Lines
Viewing A Filmstrip . . . in the Life program at Iowa School for the Deaf is Adam Hirsch of Council Bluffs.
Unique Maneuver By Army Helps Blaze Lincoln Highway
Leftover Road Signs . . . from a bygone motor era are "rediscovered" by Richard Willey and Lloyd W. Roper.
Unique Maneuver By Army Helps Blaze Lincoln Highway
Trailblazing Convoy . . . moves across Pennsylvania on the unpaved Lincoln Highway in this 1919 snapshot owned by Lloyd Roper.
Unique Design Makes Building Bridge Difficult
Looking At First Pier...completed for the Interstate Highway 80 bridge over the Missouri River here is James Presnell, resident construction engineer for the Iowa Highway Commission.
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.
Union Pacific Spruces Up
The Union Pacific Railroad yards at Seventeenth Street and Fourteenth Avenue are a bit more glamorous. Trees have been planted along the tracks and all the light poles have been painted a light green. There also are flower pots hanging from each of…
Union Pacific Railroad Steam Engine
Union Pacific Railroad Steam Engine. Northern Class Steam Locomotive. Built in 1937 for freight and passenger service. Renumbered from 844.
Union Pacific Makes Executive Changes
John C. Kenefick
Union Pacific Locomotive File 1
The Union Pacific Transfer Depot, undated.
Union Pacific Locomotive File 1
Train cars in the Union Pacific rail yard with the Union Pacific Transfer depot in the background.
Union Pacific Locomotive File 1
Union Pacific locomotive in a rail yard.
Nonpareil 3-66 written on the reverse side.
Nonpareil 3-66 written on the reverse side.
Union Pacific Locomotive File 1
"Chief Red Cloud didn't want the 'Iron Horse' because it 'scared away the buffalo.'"
Caption written on the reverse side.
Caption written on the reverse side.
Union Pacific Locomotive File 1
Transition from sledges, crowbars, and backbreaking labor to the modern rail machines shown here has put the business of maintaining a railroad's right of way into the realm of a science. And it's a science that's expensive. Union Pacific Railroad…