Sunday, July 29, 2012

The people of Burlington . . .

. . . and west of here will be glad to learn that an evening passenger train has again been put on the C. B. & Q. R. R.  It was taken off only on account of the solid condition of the road, by reason of the frost, which occasioned altogether too much breakage of rolling stock.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 22, 1862, p. 1

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