Miscellaneous publications regarding railroads
Scope and Contents
Including Plan for Reorganizing Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company from the US District Court, dated December 28, 1979; The Federal Railroad Safety Program; Railroad Abandonment: What Happens: What Can an Individual Do? prepared by the Railroad Division of the Iowa Department of Transportation; How You will Benefit From the Proposed Union Pacific-Rock Island Railroad Merger and Sale of Rock Island's Southern Properties to Southern Pacific; This Is the Rock Island; "A New Start for Transit and Rail" by Hank Dittmar from Surface Transportation Policy Project Progress July/August 1997; An Economic Analysis of Upgrading Rail Branch Lines: A Study of 71 Lines in Iowa by the Iowa Department of Transportation; a brochure for the Wilson Railway Corporation of Des Moines; and single issues of Rock Island Magazine, Trains, Trains and Travel, Modern Railroads, and Fortune. (These last two are in the oversized boxes)
Dates
- Creation: 1874-1989
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1960-1979
Creator
- From the Collection: Windsor, James H. (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: 43.00 Linear Feet (Photographs: Boxes 25, 26; Slides: Box 28)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the University of Iowa Special Collections Repository
Special Collections Department
University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City IA 52242 IaU
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