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
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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