News clipping from the DeSoto Republic, “An Inquiry: Now as DeSoto expects to celebrate the day the first engine passed through on the St. L.I.M. & S., why not get O.H. Dodge, the DeSoto shoemaker to ride in it? He fired in 1857 between St. Louis and Pilot Knob. The first two passenger engines on the road were run by the Doherty Brothers, and the first two freight engines were run, one by Wm. Murry and the other by J. Larkin.”, 1907 Sept 27
Scope and Contents
The Railroads Collection is a subject-based collection that contains correspondence regarding the building of various railroads, traveling on railroads, etc. It also includes timetables and printed matter pertaining to railroads in the United States, mainly in the Midwest and western United States, and a scrapbook of fronts of railroad timetables from the United States dated 1881. In addition, this collection contains a report relating to the transcontinental railroad. Probably a draft, and of unidentified origin, this report relates to plans in the mid-nineteenth century to construct a national Pacific railroad, and, citing the potential of American development in California and Oregon, focuses on the construction of the Missouri portion of this proposed transcontinental railroad.
Dates
- 1907 Sept 27
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research use.
Extent
From the Collection: 1.1 Cubic Feet ( (2 boxes; 1 volume; 1 oversize item))
Language of Materials
English
Repository Details
Part of the Missouri Historical Society Library and Research Center Repository