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Wednesday, February 21, 2018

RailsWest Railroad Museum is a railroad museum operated by the Historical Society of Pottawattamie County at 16th Avenue and South Main Street and illustrates the history of railroads in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

History




The RailsWest Railroad Museum Video Tour - We take a look inside a Council Bluffs' hidden treasure; the RailsWest Railroad Museum. Located at 1512 South Main Street in Council Bluffs, IA, this museum has everything from the history...

The museum is housed inside a Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad passenger depot that was also used by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific. The depot is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Passenger Depot and also has been known as just Rock Island Depot. The depot opened in 1899 and would become a daily stop for the Rocky Mountain Rocket, Midwest Hiawatha, the Arrow, and Corn Belt Rocket before the end of passenger service in 1971. Similar Rock Island passenger depots were also constructed in Iowa City, Iowa and Ottawa, Illinois.

Museum


Union Pacific Railroad Museum Stock Photos & Union Pacific ...
Union Pacific Railroad Museum Stock Photos & Union Pacific .... Source : www.alamy.com

RailsWest includes historical exhibits on the eight railroads that served the community along with displays on the Railway Mail Service and an extensive HO scale model railroad. Adjacent to the historic depot are Union Pacific locomotive 814 and Chicago, Burlington and Quincy locomotive 915, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad and Chicago, Burlington and Quincy cabooses, a 1953 switch engine built by the Plymouth Locomotive Works, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Omaha lounge car, a Union Pacific boxcar, and Union Pacific Railway Post Office car 5908. RailsWest is adjacent to tracks of the Union Pacific, BNSF, and Iowa Interstate Railroad with a fenced-in area for railfanning.

References


SVSM Gallery :: Union Pacific 4-8-4 FEF-1 Locomotive #814, Rails ...
SVSM Gallery :: Union Pacific 4-8-4 FEF-1 Locomotive #814, Rails .... Source : svsm.org

External links


Union Pacific Railroad Museum Stock Photos & Union Pacific ...
Union Pacific Railroad Museum Stock Photos & Union Pacific .... Source : www.alamy.com

  • The RailsWest website
  • The RailsWest Facebook page

Collector's tiny model trains on display at Union Pacific Railroad ...
Collector's tiny model trains on display at Union Pacific Railroad .... Source : www.omaha.com

 
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