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  silvis railroad museum: Railroads in the Midwest H. Roger Grant, 2025-08-05 Discover how railroad companies in America's heartland developed a monumental network that spanned nearly 70,000 route miles. Over a century, a wide array of carriers ranging from short lines to trunk roads spread through the Midwest and represented over 35% of the country's rail mileage in the 1920s. Railroads in the Midwest is a portrait of two premier rail hub rivals, Chicago and St. Louis, and of Iowa and Ohio, which boasted the highest line densities. Before World War I, Iowa railroad officials bragged that the Hawkeye State had a depot and agent located no farther than thirteen miles from any point within its borders. In Railroads in the Midwest: An Epic History, renowned historian H. Roger Grant draws on fifty years of research into America's celebrated railroad history to examine what effect railroads had in the heartland and what has happened to them since the early twentieth century.
  silvis railroad museum: The Chinese and the Iron Road Gordon Chang, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, 2019-04-30 Essays examining the Chinese worker experience during the construction of America’s Transcontinental Railroad. The completion of the transcontinental railroad in May 1869 is usually told as a story of national triumph and a key moment for American Manifest Destiny. The Railroad made it possible to cross the country in a matter of days instead of months, paved the way for new settlers to come out west, and helped speed America’s entry onto the world stage as a modern nation that spanned a full continent. It also created vast wealth for its four owners, including the fortune with which Leland Stanford would found Stanford University some two decades later. But while the Transcontinental has often been celebrated in national memory, little attention has been paid to the Chinese workers who made up 90 percent of the workforce on the Western portion of the line. The Railroad could not have been built without Chinese labor, but the lives of Chinese railroad workers themselves have been little understood and largely invisible. This landmark volume explores the experiences of Chinese railroad workers and their place in cultural memory. The Chinese and the Iron Road illuminates more fully than ever before the interconnected economies of China and the US, how immigration across the Pacific changed both nations, the dynamics of the racism the workers encountered, the conditions under which they labored, and their role in shaping both the history of the railroad and the development of the American West. Praise for The Chinese and the Iron Road “This timely and essential volume preserves the humanity of the often-ignored and forgotten immigrant worker, while also uncovering just how important Chinese American railroad workers were in the making of America and its place in the world.” —Erika Lee, author of The Making of Asian America “Gordon H. Chang and Shelley Fisher Fishkin’s meticulously researched and beautifully written book fills [a] critical gap in our nation’s history. The Chinese and the Iron Road brings to life the stories of workers who defied incredible odds and gave their lives to unite these states into a nation.” —David Henry Hwang, Tony Award–winning playwright of The Dance and the Railroad and M. Butterfly “Destined to become the go-to resource about Chinese railroad workers in the American West.” —Madeline Hsu, author of The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority “Deeply researched and richly detailed, The Chinese and the Iron Road brings to life the Chinese immigrants whose work was essential to the railroad’s construction.” —Thomas Bender, author of A Nation Among Nations: America’s Place in World History
  silvis railroad museum: Railfan & Railroad , 2006
  silvis railroad museum: The Railroad in the American Landscape, 1850-1950 Susan Danly, 1981 This updated book on the brain's natural learning process offers practical methods for teaching all students to take responsibility for their own success-- Provided by publisher.
  silvis railroad museum: The History of the Canton Railroad Company Gary W. Schlerf, 1996
  silvis railroad museum: Sweetwater County Cyndi McCullers, Sweetwater County Historical Museum, 2009 People have existed in southwestern Wyoming for thousands of years, yet most lacked the heartiness to settle there. Fur trappers were among the first to explore the area's natural resources, but more importantly, they mapped the frontier, allowing westward expansion along the Oregon, California, Mormon, Cherokee, and Overland trails. Sweetwater County was formed in 1868, with the organization of the Wyoming Territory, and South Pass City became the county seat. A waning gold industry in South Pass caused the county seat to be relocated to Sweetwater County in 1875. Ironically, the Sweetwater River and South Pass City would end up in Fremont County and, in typical boom-and-bust fashion, gold went out and coal was in. Miners were needed, so coal camps were established and workers ultimately settled in Sweetwater County with their families. In the 1930s, Rock Springs became a melting pot, boasting 56 nationalities at the high school. The oil, natural gas, and mining industries continue this boom-and-bust cycle even today.
  silvis railroad museum: Railway Age , 1928
  silvis railroad museum: Journal of the West Lorrin L. Morrison, Carroll Spear Morrison, 1994
  silvis railroad museum: Southern Pacific in Transition Bill Shippen, 1999 Examines the many paint schemes 1939-1996.
  silvis railroad museum: Extra Twenty-two Hundred South , 2000
  silvis railroad museum: Across America on an Emigrant Train Jim Murphy, 1993 An account of Robert Louis Stevenson's twelve day journey from New York to California in 1879, interwoven with a history of the building of the transcontinental railroad and the settling of the West.
  silvis railroad museum: Rock Island Lines News Digest , 1948
  silvis railroad museum: Nineteenth Century , 1981
  silvis railroad museum: Hero Street, U.S.A. Marc Wilson, 2012-11-20 The first book-length account of a story too long overlooked Claro Solis wanted to win a gold star for his mother. He succeeded—as did seven other sons of “Little Mexico.” Second Street in Silvis, Illinois, was a poor neighborhood during the Great Depression that had become home to Mexicans fleeing revolution in their homeland. In 1971 it was officially renamed “Hero Street” to commemorate its claim to the highest per-capita casualty rate from any neighborhood during World War II. Marc Wilson now tells the story of this community and the young men it sent to fight for their adopted country. Hero Street, U.S.A. is the first book to recount a saga too long overlooked in histories and television documentaries. Interweaving family memories, soldiers’ letters, historical photographs, interviews with relatives, and firsthand combat accounts, Wilson tells the compelling stories of nearly eighty men from three dozen Second Street homes who volunteered to fight for their country in World War II and Korea—and of the eight, including Claro Solis, who never came back. As debate swirls around the place of Mexican immigrants in contemporary American society, this book shows the price of citizenship willingly paid by the sons of earlier refugees. With Hero Street, U.S.A., Marc Wilson not only makes an important contribution to military and social history but also acknowledges the efforts of the heroes of Second Street to realize the American dream.
  silvis railroad museum: The Signalman's Journal , 1992
  silvis railroad museum: Trains , 1979
  silvis railroad museum: Pacific Rail News , 1995
  silvis railroad museum: Steam Powered Video's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America Mike Walker, 1996
  silvis railroad museum: Annual Report for the Year ... John Crerar Library, 1923
  silvis railroad museum: Engineering Record, Building Record and Sanitary Engineer , 1908
  silvis railroad museum: The Engineering Record, Building Record and the Sanitary Engineer , 1908
  silvis railroad museum: Rock Island Employes' Magazine , 1929
  silvis railroad museum: Annual Report John Crerar Library, 1923
  silvis railroad museum: Report John Crerar Library, 1926
  silvis railroad museum: Report [etc.] Illinois. State Board of Arbitration, 1916
  silvis railroad museum: The Savage View Bradley W. Richards, 1995
  silvis railroad museum: Illinois , 1993
  silvis railroad museum: Business Phone Book USA , 2000
  silvis railroad museum: Annual Report Illinois. State Board of Arbitration, 1916
  silvis railroad museum: The National Directory of Addresses and Telephone Numbers , 1996
  silvis railroad museum: Congressional Record United States. Congress, 2011
  silvis railroad museum: Publication , 1991
  silvis railroad museum: The Wonderful Ride George T. Loher, 1978
  silvis railroad museum: The Rock Island Line Bill Marvel, 2013-10-01 Explore the rich history of the legendary railroad that spanned the American Midwest in this beautifully illustrated volume. Beginning operations in the mid-nineteenth century, the Rock Island Line served farms and small-town America for more than 140 years. One of the earliest railroads to build westward from Chicago, it was the first to span the Mississippi, advancing the frontier, bringing settlers into the West, and hauling their crops to market. Rock Island’s celebrated Rocket passenger trains also set a standard for speed and service, with suburban runs as familiar to Windy City commuters as the Loop. For most of its existence, the Rock battled competitors much larger and richer than itself. When it finally succumbed, the result was one of the largest business bankruptcies ever. Today, as its engines and stock travel the busy main lines operated by other carriers, the Rock Island Line lives on in the hearts of those whom it employed and served.
  silvis railroad museum: Grand Excursions on the Upper Mississippi River Curtis C. & Elizabeth M. Roseman & Roseman, 2009-09-01 In June 1854 the Grand Excursion celebrated in festive style the completion of the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad to the Mississippi River. Hundreds of dignitaries including newspaper editors and other journalists; politicians; academics, writers and artists; business and industry leaders; and railroad officials were among those who traveled by rail from Chicago to Rock Island, Illinois, then by steamboat to St. Paul in Minnesota Territory. The travelers were shown a region undergoing rapid settlement by Europeans—an area of great natural beauty offering many promises for additional development. One hundred and fifty years later, the thirteen essays in this volume examine the activities and environments of the 1854 Grand Excursion and place them in the context of an evolving regional identity for the Upper Mississippi River Valley based on the economy, culture, geography, and history of the area. In a series of “excursions,” the contributors explore the building of the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad, eastern newspaper accounts of the 1854 excursion, steamboating, the area’s pictorial landscape, passenger trains along the scenic river, the genesis and features of river towns, the control of the river for navigation, the development of preserves, parks, and recreation areas, the lumber industry, and commercial fishing. The book concludes by examining the resurgence of river-oriented development, as river towns are once again embracing the Mississippi. Generously illustrated with maps, engravings, ephemera, and historic and present-day photographs, Grand Excursions on the Upper Mississippi River will be of interest to tourists and residents of the area, river aficionados, railroad and steamboat history buffs, as well as academics interested in the history, geography, and regional development of the area.
  silvis railroad museum: Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 United States. Internal Revenue Service, 1997
  silvis railroad museum: Railroadman's Magazine , 1957
  silvis railroad museum: ERA Headlights , 1956
  silvis railroad museum: Magnetic West Andrew Kensett, 2020-11-17 Unpicking the ever-changing myth of the West in photography, from the 19th century to now Published for an exhibition at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa, Magnetic Westfeatures over 160 photographs by some of the most renowned photographers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Picturing the West as a metaphor for promise and peril, Magnetic Westexplores issues of identity, implications of living in a changing landscape and the centrality of Native and immigrant communities to the essential dynamism of the region. Including images made by artists from the US and abroad, Magnetic Westexpands the dialogue of how our view of the West has evolved from the 19th century to today. Assembled from many public and private collections, it includes important works by Robert Adams, Edward Burtynsky, Laura Gilpin, Zig Jackson, Elaine Mayes, Chandra McCormick, Cara Romero, Wendy Red Star, Victoria Sambunaris, Carleton Watkins, Wim Wenders and many others.
  silvis railroad museum: Railfan , 1977
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Silvis is a city in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States. It is part of a larger metropolitan area known as the Quad Cities. The Quad Cities Metropolitan Area is situated across four counties in …

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Silvis is a deeply patriotic community, home to Hero Street USA, a Memorial to 8 immigrant sons who gave their lives in the defense of freedom in World War II and the Korean War. More than …

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Located on the Illinois side of the QC region, Silvis is home to the John Deere Classic PGA TOUR. Watch PGA pros compete and listen to rock and country stars with “Concerts on the Course”.

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Silvis, Illinois, is a city with a rich history and a strong sense of community, primarily known for its connection to the railroad industry. Established in the early 1900s, Silvis grew as a hub for …

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The Silvis Public Library strives to ensure that everyone has access to our full range of collections, programming, events, meetings, and services.

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Nov 30, 2024 · Silvis is a suburb of Davenport with a population of 7,939. Silvis is in Rock Island County. Living in Silvis offers residents a dense suburban feel and most residents own their homes.

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Silvis, Illinois - Wikipedia
Silvis is a city in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States. It is part of a larger metropolitan area known as the Quad Cities. The Quad Cities Metropolitan Area is situated across four counties …

Home | Silvis School District
Silvis School District 4280 4th Avenue East Moline, IL 61244 Phone: 309-792-9325 Fax 309-865-2233

City of Silvis | Life in Silvis
Silvis is a deeply patriotic community, home to Hero Street USA, a Memorial to 8 immigrant sons who gave their lives in the defense of freedom in World War II and the Korean War. More than …

Silvis - Biciclete - Mount Bikes
Bicicleta MTB SILVIS 3x8 viteze Roti 27 Premium Silver 2300,00 Lei. 1399,99 Lei - 20%. Ochelari Ciclism Perfect Execution 123,99 Lei ...

Silvis | Visit Quad Cities
Located on the Illinois side of the QC region, Silvis is home to the John Deere Classic PGA TOUR. Watch PGA pros compete and listen to rock and country stars with “Concerts on the …

Silvis, IL Map & Directions - MapQuest
Silvis, Illinois, is a city with a rich history and a strong sense of community, primarily known for its connection to the railroad industry. Established in the early 1900s, Silvis grew as a hub for …

THE 5 BEST Things to Do in Silvis (2025) - Tripadvisor
Jan 1, 2017 · Things to Do in Silvis, Illinois: See Tripadvisor's 359 traveler reviews and photos of Silvis tourist attractions. Find what to do today, this weekend, or in June. We have reviews of …

Home | Silvis Illinois Public Library
The Silvis Public Library strives to ensure that everyone has access to our full range of collections, programming, events, meetings, and services.

Silvis, IL - Niche
Nov 30, 2024 · Silvis is a suburb of Davenport with a population of 7,939. Silvis is in Rock Island County. Living in Silvis offers residents a dense suburban feel and most residents own their …