Single story depot. Train cars and automobile nearby. Gas tank outside depot. Signal on pole. "Photo taken Sun., Sept. 21, 1958 PM. Photo taken by: Ronald Sims, 4207 Bowdoin St., Des Moines 13, Iowa"--Photograph verso.
Single story wooden depot with sign for Winterset, Rock Island insignia and Railway Express Agency. Automobiles parked next to depot. "Located at the end of the Winterset Branch line. This line will be torn up on completion of a line from Earlham...
Single story wooden depot with two sets of tracks in front and automobile and several railroad cars sitting behind. "Agency service moved to Ogden, Ia. as of March 18,1958. Station is now empty. (/as of 5-Oct-58) Photo taken by Ronald Sims, 4207...
Single story wooden depot with other buildings behind. Railroad signal. "13.1 miles NE of Des Moines. Photo taken Sunday, July 13, 1958 PM. Photo taken by Ronald Sims, 4207 Bowdoin St., Des Moines 13, Iowa."--Photograph verso.
Shed with sign for Booneville. Railroad car. "Rock Island station sign. Photo taken on Sept. 21, 1958 PM Sun. Photo taken by: Ronald Sims, 4207 Bowdoin St., Des Moines 13, Iowa"--Photograph verso.
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Northwestern University faculty member Abigail Foerstner reads from her new biography, "James Van Allen: The First Eight Billion Miles."
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Melissa Faye Greene, the author of Praying for Sheetrock, and The Temple Bombing reads from her most recent book on the 1958 Springhill mining disaster in Nova Scotia called Last Man Out.