Industrial History

These are notes that I am writing to help me learn our industrial history. They are my best understanding, but that does not mean they are a correct understanding.

Thursday, July 27, 2017

TRRA: Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis

( Map ) The Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis (TRRA) owned the St. Louis Union Station and the two bridges that could carry railr...

Splinter Free Toilet Paper Became Available in 1935

1889 It is amazing what we take for granted now days. Electricity and indoor plumbing are rather obvious advances in civilization. I n...

EI&TH: Evansville, Indianapolis & Terre Haute Railroad

I learned about this railroad while researching which railroad a coal mine near Somerville, IN , is connected to (currently Indiana Southern...

Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Grove GMK3055 Crane, My Pictures

20170624,25 0448 This is what I found at one of our neighborhood construction sites on July 24. The operator was obviously waiting for s...

Monday, July 24, 2017

CSX/B&O Bridge over Wabash River and (VN) Tower in Vincennes, IN

( Bridge Hunter , no Historic Bridges, Satellite ) James Simmons Photo of 2009 Flood from Bridge Hunter A photo of CSX replacing the ...

CSX/SAL Bridge over Tamiami Canal in Miami, FL

Neither Google nor Bing label the canal as "Tamiami," but since the road right next to it is labeled Tamiami Canal Road, I'm a...

Santa Fe Ferry Service across San Francisco Bay

After building an extension from Kansas City to Chicago in 1888, the Santa Fe went from Chicago to southern California. At Barstow, CA , th...

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Dennis DeBruler: The caption of any image that is not mine will indicate the source. My images are © 2014-20, and are licensed by CC BY, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Attribution: Dennis DeBruler. Since I hit the 1200 byte limit, I have moved my real introduction to http://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/2014/05/introduction.html.

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