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Title: Railroad Depot, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Postcard of the Grinnell, Iowa, railroad depot at State Street and Third Avenue. Sign on depot reads: "Grinnell -- Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway." Late 1950s and early 1960s model cars in parking lot.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:5941

Title: Railroad Tracks South of Central Park
Description: View looking west along the railroad tracks south of Central Park in Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-5, Views of Grinnell.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:11837

Title: Railroad bridge, across the Des Moines River, Boone, Iowa, Centerville Bridge
Description: We believe this is not the Kate Shelley bridge as written on the card (search for Kate Shelley High Bridge), but the Centerville Bridge which can be seen from the Kate Shelley Bridge. Looking north at a Lost Pratt through bridge built in 1896 by George E. King Bridge Co. of Des Moines, Iowa, and the King Iron Bridge Co., of Cleveland, OH. It was replaced in 1922 by a new bridge downstream. The bridge is no longer standing. The postcard reads "Magazines and newspapers of all nations have published the story of Kate Shelly's heroism that dark and stormy night in July, when, a girl of only fourteen years, she crossed the old wooden structure, since replaced by the above steel bridge, on hands and knees, during the violent storm then raging, the river at the time being much higher than shown in this picture, nearly reaching the ties." --t.p. 1912 postmark. Copyright 1903.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:13431

Title: Railroad depot, Kellogg, Iowa
Description: One-story wood building. Kellogg was formed in September 1865. The railroad reached the town in 1866 and it was designated a station on the line.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:14595

Title: Railway Express Agency Letter
Description: Letter from the Railway Express Agency in Des Moines, Iowa, to the Barnes City, Iowa, agent, dated November 30, 1931, detailing costs and conditions for shipping one hog from Barnes City to Cienfuegos, Cuba. The hog discussed was bred by Mrs. Lucy Broyles.
Date Created: 1931
PID: grinnell:12082