The
Restored Burlington Northern Depot & WWII Memorial
Museum
Located
in the Depot Hill Historic
Preservation District
“
Honoring Veterans & Celebrating Railroad Heritage ! “
305 SOUTH 2ND
STREET, RED OAK IOWA 51566
Plan Your
Visit – FREE admission | Overview
& Mission
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Red Oak Junction Days at the Depot !
FREE
RAILROAD MOVIES & FREE POPCORN
Friday, 28 June 2019, noon to 6
pm, &
Sunday, 30 June 2019, noon to 4
pm
(doors open 11:30 am both days)
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Year 2019 – Sesquicentennial of the
east-west railroad
in Southwest Iowa, and the
communities of
Creston, Red Oak, Hastings,
Emerson, and Malvern.
The Burlington & Missouri River
Railroad [B&MRR] laid
track west from near Creston, and
east from the
Missouri River, converging
at Hastings, 18 NOV 1869.
From Burlington Bulletin, #11 (1st quarter 1984), p
5:
“Actually, the line [B&MRR] was
completed with a last spike
driven at Hastings, 14 miles west of Red
Oak, since track
crews had begun pushing the rails
eastward from
East
Plattsmouth earlier that fall to speed the line’s completion.”
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Also in 1869, the Union Pacific and
Central Pacific Railroads
converged their tracks In Utah,
completing the first U.S.
“transcontinental” railroad line (a
continuous coast to coast track
was competed in 1870, with the construction
of a bridge in Colorado).
The UPRR bridge between Omaha and Council
Bluffs was completed
in 1873. The
CB&Q Plattsmouth bridge spanning the
Missouri River was
completed in 1880.
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Sesquicentennial event schedules for Creston, Malvern, Hastings.
Red Oak events:
Thursday thru Sunday, 27 - 30 June, 2019.
Special
Railroad Sesquicentennial Event on
Saturday,
06
July 2019 in Uptown Creston, 10 am to 3 pm !
BNSF Locomotive &
two Business Cars
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
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Struggle, a poem
written by a U.S.
Civil War Veteran
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“World
War One – The War That Will End War”
(4pp, .pdf)
and enduring consequences since the end of WWI in 1918
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“Did the
end of the Great War come too soon?”
(8pp, .pdf)
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Gene Hoskinson’s
momentos from across
Europe during
World War II, as a
combat soldier (1 p,
.pdf)
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WWII
(war & home
front), “Red Bull”,
railroads, Red
Oak Iowa )
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World
War II in photos (facebook)
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World War II in COLORIZED photos (facebook)
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WWII
TODAY – follow the war as it
happened,
01 SEP 1939
thru 02 SEP
1945, updated DAILY (website)
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Living
History, interviews with WWII Veterans
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blog archives of the late Steve Buttry, author of An American Story
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The
Restored Burlington
Northern Depot & WWII Memorial Museum
is
staffed entirely by volunteers.
Donations
and volunteers are welcomed and encouraged
THANKS to these Contributors, Sponsors, and Volunteer
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