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Box 2

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News story about a note of the North Missouri Railroad, which later became the Wabash system, dated pre-Civil War. In 1855, the railroad, begun in 1851, was completed between “Brotherton” on the east bank of the Missouri River to North Market and 2nd Streets, St. Louis., 1940 May 31

 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: 1940 May 31