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UPPER RESERVOIR - WATER WORKS - FAIRMOUNT PARK.jpg
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.jpg
Photograph of Upper Broadway. East from approximately Fourth Street.

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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…

Alter_Company_04_05_1974.jpg
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.

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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…

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Viewing A Filmstrip . . . in the Life program at Iowa School for the Deaf is Adam Hirsch of Council Bluffs.

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Leftover Road Signs . . . from a bygone motor era are "rediscovered" by Richard Willey and Lloyd W. Roper.

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Trailblazing Convoy . . . moves across Pennsylvania on the unpaved Lincoln Highway in this 1919 snapshot owned by Lloyd Roper.

Bridge_I480_Over_Missouri_River_8_2_1970_010.jpg
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.jpg
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_Locomotive_File1_10_10_1971_001.jpg
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…

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

Union_Pacific_Locomotive_File1_undated_006.jpg
The Union Pacific Transfer Depot, undated.

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Train cars in the Union Pacific rail yard with the Union Pacific Transfer depot in the background.

Union_Pacific_Locomotive_File1_3_1966_001.jpg
Union Pacific locomotive in a rail yard.

Nonpareil 3-66 written on the reverse side.

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"Chief Red Cloud didn't want the 'Iron Horse' because it 'scared away the buffalo.'"

Caption written on the reverse side.

Union_Pacific_Locomotive_File1_01_1962_001.jpg
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…

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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…

Union_Pacific_Locomotive_File1_undated_002.jpg
Union Pacific Railroad yards in Council Bluffs, looking towards the southwest. The road in the foreground where the railroad tracks cross is Ninth Avenue. The Golden Spike Monument is at middle right.
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