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Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Roundhouse, Creston, Iowa

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Looking northeast at one of the largest roundhouses in the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy system. The Creston railroad yards were built in 1871. The old machine shop building was destroyed by a tornado in 1946, and the remainder of the roundhouse burned down in 1981. Number 3872.
Title Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Roundhouse, Creston, Iowa
supporting host Grinnell College Libraries Special Collections
Index Date 1905
Publisher Ten Cent Store
Publisher Williams, C.U. (Bloomington, Ill.)
Type of Resource still image
Genre postcard
Physical Extent 1 postcard : color ; 9 x 14 cm.
Medium Color lithograph print, undivided back.
Note Color
citation/reference The Great American Stations (http://www.greatamericanstations.com/)
Date Issued 1900-1910
Note Purchase or donation
Note Scanned with HP Scanjet 4670 at 600 ppi. Archival master image available in tiff format.
Language English
Topic Railroads, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Topic Railroad facilities
Topic Railroad roundhouses
Topic Transportation facilities
Topic Union County (Iowa)
Topic Creston (Iowa)
Cartographic 41.057320, -94.358523
Classification MS 108, Box 2, ihpc_cresto0005
Related Item Iowa Historical Postcard Collection (IHPC)
Related Item Grinnell College. Special Collections and Archives
Related Item Digital Grinnell
Identifier (local) ihpc_cresto0005
Identifier (local) grinnell:16222
Access Condition Grinnell College Libraries does not own the copyright in these images and therefore cannot give or deny permission to publish or distribute any of them. It is the researcher's responsibility to determine and satisfy copyright or other use restrictions when publishing or distributing material from this collection. Any materials used must carry a credit line: Historic Iowa Postcard Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Grinnell College Libraries.
Identifier (hdl) http://hdl.handle.net/11084/16222
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