A Trip on the Fast Mail
Much of America's mail was once sorted and distributed by the railway mail service. The first experiment in distributing U.S. mail in so-called "post offices on wheels" ...
railroads
What We Found
A Window into Abraham Lincoln’s Funeral Car
Source: Mrs. Ethel Carleton
If you had to guess the history of this object, what would you think? Perhaps an old, well-used picture frame? Actually its original ...
The Sioux City & Pacific Railroad Company
The Library/Archives recently acquired this stock certificate for the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad Company.
Sioux City and Pacific Railroad Company ...
Snowbound on a Train
The passengers snowbound on the Missouri Pacific train between Eagle and Elmwood were released late Friday, but not through the clearing of the track.
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Steamboats Impractical in an Age of Railroads
Steamboat Red Cloud, 1873-1882. NSHS RG4997-69
The “Golden Age” of steamboating on the Missouri River was between 1850 and 1860. The outbreak of the Civil War ...
Two daring rescues of children from the path of a speeding train
George Poell looked out the locomotive’s window as soon as he felt the pull of the emergency brakes. A small child was wandering along the tracks, and the train was ...
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