Box 2
Container
Contains 1 Result:
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
Item — Box: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
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...
Dates:
1907 Sept 27