The Mississippi and Missouri Railroad was the first railroad in Iowa and was chartered in 1853 to build a line between Davenport, Iowa on the Mississippi River and Council Bluffs, Iowa on the Missouri River and was to play an important role in the construction of the First Transcontinental ...
Typically, railroad studies of communities in the antebellum fall into one of two broad categories. Either a town was a well-established market center that constructed a railroad to increase its reach, or a frontier community largely established and ran at the railroad's discretion. Largely overloo...
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This mile-long structure with its peaks and valleys and lattice work of metal beams makes it a textbook example of a big metal monster bridge. Despite its huge size and its location on the Memphis riverfront, this bridge is somewhat hidden from view. Two very large railroad bridges shield ...
The idea for this attraction and historic endeavor began in March, 1982 when the railroad abandoned rail service through the town. At the time the company had fallen on hard times, an issue dating back to its 1972 merger with the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio which formed the Illinois Central Gulf...
IMAGE: The Mississippi and its Tributaries. stream becomes known as the Missouri. From its remote sources in the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of Mexico the total length of the river is about 4200 miles. The other principal tributaries are the Ohio, the Arkansas, and the Red River, but the...
focus on the Upper Mississippi, and as we ping-ponged from both sides of the river — Missouri and Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin — I had the chance to visit working dairy farms and plenty ofcharming small towns, where mom-and-pop shops still thrive and the American dream is alive and ...
Railroad model of the historic town of Hurstville Natural Playscape: catch a frog or tadpole in the pond using nets and buckets provided, balance on logs and stumps, find your way through our prairie maze, build with sticks, bricks and rocks, play checkers or tic-tac-toe with colored rocks...
and methods, gradually familiar with and master the company introduced the working principle, operation method of gas machine. With the help of the department leaders and colleagues, familiar with and master the launch of the division principle, debugging method of the control system, and to wuhan...
Twain was an eyewitness to the nineteenth-century expansion of the western frontier.He was a young man when wagon trains 1eft his home state to cross the prairies on the Oregon Trail,and he later saw the transcontinental railroad built.He traveled throughout the rapidly expanding nation,working...