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Title: American Railroad Journal July 4, 1846
Date: 1846-07-04, 1846-07-04

Title: Control Tower
Date: 1940-04-28
Description: Photograph from inside the control tower south of Union Station. A worker looks out over the railway lines as a train passes.

Title: Flying kites off stern
Date: 1972-07
Description: Two Men handle a kite on a boat's stern.

Title: American Railroad Journal
Date: 1834-04-19
Description: Vol III, No 15.

Title: Progress Through Bank-Station 39/50
Date: 1952-09-04
Description: Progress through bank-station 39/50. Kansas City District, Pilot Channel Project.

Title: American Railroad Journal
Date: 1834-04-05
Description: Vol III, No 13.

Title: Watching the lock walls rise beside them
Date: 1972-07
Description: Watching the lock walls rise beside them, the Delta Queen's passengers are all well aware that they are experiencing the final act in a chapter of American history. How sad to think that future generations may well be deprived of this unique mode of travel and escape from our society's breakneck pace.

Title: The Delta Queen approaches Lock 26 at Alton
Date: 1972-07
Description: The Delta Queen approaches Lock 26 at Alton, downbound on her last trip before being taken out of overnight passenger service. The Queen made a stately and forlorn appearance as she eased into the locks, heightened by the melancholy mood of a still early morning haze.

Title: Chase Hotel
Date: 1972
Description: Photograph of the Chase Hotel.

Title: American Rail-Road Journal, Volume 1, Number 13
Date: 1832-03-24
Description: Vol I, No 13

Title: A Trip on the Atchafalaya River
Date: 1883-04-11
Description: 1. Entrance to Atchafalaya River. 2. A "Swamper's" house on the Atchafalaya. 3. A Swamper. 4. Steamer running the rapids of the Atchafalaya. 5. Red River Landing. 6. Castle on the Atchafalaya. 7. Little Whiskey Bayou. 8. A Swamper's garden (in a Canoe). 9. The ash cabin, Atchafalaya. 10. Map showing changes in the Mississippi's current.

Title: Last Look, Steamer Delta Queen
Date: 1972-07
Description: The Delta Queen, viewed at the stern.

Title: Fourteenth and Carr
Date: 1953-04-15
Description: A tour to inspect the redevelopment program was part of the itinerary here yesterday of a Pittsburgh civic leader, Arthur B. Van Buskirk (left). He inspects area at Fourteenth and Carr streets with, from left, Saul Dubinsky, chairman of the City Plan Commission; James E. Crowe, city-counselor, and Ethan A. H. Sheplay of Civic Progress, Inc. The site is being considered for industrial redevelopment.

Title: American Railroad Journal
Date: 1834-05-24
Description: Vol III, No 20.

Title: Father Marquette Monument
Date: 1972-07
Description: A monument for father Marquette in Utica, Illinois.

Title: Alice Ingram
Date: 1953-04-06
Description: M/V (Alice Ingram) passing service base.

Title: Pigskin Park-and-Ride Scores at Union Station
Date: 1959-10-03, 1959-10-04
Description: on one side part of what it gained at the other back in 1929 when 10 new tracks were added at the west side of the train shed. In those days, an average of 650 trains used to station every day. Nowadays, the average is slighty over 100.

Title: Close fit under bridge
Date: 1972-07
Description: The Delta Queen barely passes under a bridge.

Title: The master rings for "All Stop"
Date: 1972-07
Description: The master rings for "All Stop" as the Queen is secured against the lock wall and the upper gates swing shut. With the river at a low stage, the Queen was dropped about fifteen feet this morning. The city of Alton was just beginning to waken, and no spectators were on hand to watch the Queen during her final lockage at Alton.

Title: Union Station
Date: 1972-08-18, 1972-08-19
Description: "Trains used to be in and out of here all day and night but now there are only three a day" —Edward Dodson, supervisor of red caps at Union Station.

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