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Amtrak Timetables
Amtrak schedules for routes around the country, including Illinois and surrounding states....
Aviation Collection
The file contains various newspaper clippings, advertisements, personal accounts, and ephemera regarding aviation in McLean County....
Bloomington, Illinois Aviation 1920, 1930, 1940
Aviation buff Marion McClure donated these materials which he used in compiling a 1998 book entitled Bloomington, Illinois Aviation 192...
Bridgestone Firestone
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company became Bridgestone Firestone North American Tire in 1995. The plant in Normal, Illinois, manufacture...
Bus Transit
The Bloomington-Normal public transit system opened in 1938 under the name “Bloomington-Normal City Lines Inc.” During its early period...
Chicago & Alton Railroad Miscellaneous
The coming of the Illinois Central and the Chicago and Alton Railroads in the 1850s changed Bloomington-Normal forever. The railroads ...
Childers, James Railroad
James H. Childers (1903-65) was born in Tennessee and according to the census achieved a fourth grade education. He joined the GM&...
Freedom Train
The Freedom Train began as a concept formulated by government officials in early 1946. Strongly supported by the Archivist of the Unite...
Garst, Elmer Record Book
A grocer and amateur historian from Stanford, Elmer Garst compiled information about local births and deaths, ministers of local church...
Gossard, Steve Railroad
Born in Galesburg in 1949, Steve Gossard moved to Normal to study at Illinois State University where he eventually earned a masters in ...
Haxel Railroading
Delmar Haxel, born in Bloomington in 1920, worked for the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad for thirty eight years. He served as supervis...
Illinois Central Railroad
The Illinois Central was a major carrier of passengers on its Chicago to New Orleans line and between Chicago and St. Louis. The IC re...
Illinois Traction Terminal
The Bloomington-to-Peoria interurban line was one of the more charming railroad jaunts in all of Central Illinois. In the first half of...
Mitsubishi Motors
This collection contains material related to the Mitsubishi Motors Company as well as the Diamond Star Motors joint venture that was fo...
Railroad Books—Miscellaneous
The collection includes assorted books of labor agreements, wage schedules, rules books, manuals for operators and engineers, and more....
Railroad Fatalities
The collection includes copies of newspaper articles and obituaries of individuals killed in railway accidents. These include individua...
Railroad Time Books
Railroad foremen used time books to record workers’ names, hours, wages and specifics of projects undertaken. Train engineers and fire...
Route 66
Originally called Highway 4, Route 66 was one of the first roads in the nation’s numbered highway system. It stretched all the way from...
Tilbury Flash
The Tilbury Flash is a single-seat American racing monoplane designed and built in the 1930s by Owen Tilbury and Cecil Fundy. The aircr...