In 1902, that railroad was taken over by the Rock Island. Hays told me about his work for the Missouri Pacific, which primarily involved crossing the Junction Bridge. I used that bridge when we were working on the Valley Division. There was a rail yard — I guess it’s pretty much ...
Trip planning tools and info for the Katy Trail, a 239-mile biking and hiking trail crossing Missouri from St Charles to Clinton. The Rock Island Trail intersects the Rock Island Trail in Windsor, and will eventually intersect on the east end as well, fo
Iowa's antebellum relationship with the Rock Island Line and Mississippi and Missouri railroads IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY Kathleen Hilliard HauserChad AllanTypically, railroad studies of communities in the antebellum fall into one of two broad categories. Either a town was a well-established market center ...
Brown v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Co., 212 F. Supp. 832 (W.D. Mo. 1963) case opinion from the US District Court for the Western District of Missouri
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Co., Appellant, v. Charles Melcher, Appellee, 333 F.2d 996 (8th Cir. 1964) case opinion from the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
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Meanwhile, some 40 miles of the Wichita Falls and Southern Railroad between Graham in Young County and a point south of Breckenridge in Stephens County was acquired and operated by the since defunct Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad until 1969, when this line, too, was disestablished. ...
Arkansas’ history with UFOs goes back at least to April 20, 1897. Railroad conductor James Hooton claimed to be hunting in Homan when he came upon an otherworldly airship and chatted with its bespectacled pilot and crew. Hooton described the craft as cylindrical, with wheels and a horizontal...
Visitors to Yosemite National Park enjoy skating on a frozen lake in the early 1900s. The vast, protected park has a land mass comparable to the size of Rhode Island. Ranger driving car on railroad Corbis Historical Ranger driving car on railroad ...