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Know Your Scenes:
Someday, these bulky sections of pipe will be draining rural roads. Right now, trimmed in snowy frosting, they're doing a balancing act. Recognize the location?
Answer: The 5-foot metal culverts are stored in the Pottawattamie County equipment…
Answer: The 5-foot metal culverts are stored in the Pottawattamie County equipment…
Know Your Scenes:
Like a pair of white thatched sentinels, these brick columns guard the entrance to a rustic setting in the north-central part of town. Recognize them?
Answer: The columns flank the entrance to Rohrer Park, where Military Avenue joins 6th St.
Answer: The columns flank the entrance to Rohrer Park, where Military Avenue joins 6th St.
Know Your Scenes:
A wintry park scene forms a background for this unusual bit of architecture. The crisscrossing metal rods flank the patio at a popular picnic spot. Can you identify it?
Answer: The north walkway alongside the Roberts Park shelter.
Answer: The north walkway alongside the Roberts Park shelter.
Know Your Scenes:
Stone carvings give an attractive, and appropriately Old World, appearance to this well used doorway in downtown Council Bluffs. The rooms beyond the door have been the scene of countless club meetings, dances and other social programs. Can you…
Know Your Scenes In Council Bluffs
On a cold December day, this mechanical installation appears to be a long way from necessary. But it is a vital part of an important industry. Recognize it?
Answer: Ice loading machinery at the Pacific Fruit Express dock, 3300 Fourteenth Ave.
Answer: Ice loading machinery at the Pacific Fruit Express dock, 3300 Fourteenth Ave.
Know Your Scenes In Council Bluffs
Stately columns frame the entrance to one of Iowa's most renowned places of learning. Recognize it?
Answer: The entrance to the main building at Iowa School for the Deaf.
Answer: The entrance to the main building at Iowa School for the Deaf.
Know Your Scenes In Council Bluffs
This handsome plaque is fastened to the brick wall near the doorway of one of the newer buildings in Council Bluffs. Several hundred persons pass it daily during their regular business trips to the building. Can you identify the location?
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Union Pacific Locomotive File 1
The Union Pacific Transfer Depot, undated.
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.
First Run For New Mail Train
A new 36-car, coast-to-coast mail train departed 10 minutes early as it passed westward through Council Bluffs Saturday night. The train was to leave here at 7:15 but pulled out at 7:05. The train stopped at the former mail terminal on South…
Bison Head, Typifying Old West, Looks Down on Travelers Crossing U. P. Span
The fine bronze buffalo head which looks down from the east portal as all trains pass over the Union Pacific railroad bridge here.--Nonpareil Engraving.
Union Pacific Bridge Carries Transcontinental Traffic
Over the Union Pacific bridge, pictured in the foreground above, passes the nation's transcontinental traffic. The bridge carries the passenger trains and most of the freight trains of all railroads between Council Bluffs and Omaha. In the background…
Intermodal Terminal
To handle the increasing volume of piggy-back freight, Union Pacific Railroad has opened an intermodal freight terminal in Omaha, according to W. J. Fox, UP vice president of operations. The terminal, located on the old Union Station passenger yard,…
U.P. Diesel Shop Nearly Complete
"Three-Level" Construction...in new diesel shop enables workmen to service all parts of a unit at one time. Railroad employes [sic] are shown here taking advantage of the new idea in shop construction.
Foot Bridge Is Demolished
Going Down...the heavy span with supporting legs partially cut through folded like a pair of scissors and landed with a thud on the well-placed timbers for a cushion. The bridge cleared the rail tracks by inches.
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…
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…
Engineers Plan To Build Underpass From Top Down
Detour Routes...will be constructed on either side of the Union Pacific's tracks at this location to allow train passage while Iowa Highway Commission contractors build an underpass for Interstate 29--from the top down!--Nonpareil Photo.
Three Giant Steamers Are Going West-For Last Time
Greasing Big Drives...on old "823" for its last run is Machinist Robert Swanger of Honey Creek. Drive wheels on the steam engines are six feet in diameter.
New U.P. Viaduct Is Great Convenience for Employes [sic]
This new viaduct, more than 400 feet long, in the Union Pacific yards, was recently completed for the safety and convenience of employes [sic], who formerly were forced to go a roundabout way to their place of employment in the yards. Cost of…