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Incredible black-and-white pictures capture how railroads and steamboats helped forge its future..
UK Daily Mail ^ | July 19, 2012 | Staff

Posted on 07/20/2012 6:29:52 AM PDT by C19fan

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To: C19fan

I grew up about 1.5 Mile from that Rail Road High Bridge(it’s still there, commonly known by the Locals(Boone County, IA) as the “Kate Shelley High Bridge”)). I walked across it when I was around 10 or so.


21 posted on 07/20/2012 11:35:23 AM PDT by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: iowamark
Great pictures at the link.

You were lucky.
I gave up trying to get in afer 15 minutes.
Maybe in a few days.

22 posted on 07/20/2012 5:10:33 PM PDT by publius911 (Formerly Publius 6961, formerly jennsdad)
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To: C19fan

 GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother & Ernest_at_the_Beach
Thanks C19fan.

Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution.

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.


23 posted on 07/26/2012 4:07:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: BubbaBobTX

That Baldwin locomotive had the horse power to pull 100 loaded cars at 120 MPH.


24 posted on 07/26/2012 4:36:06 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they were.)
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