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Extinct passenger pigeon once visitor to Central Illinois
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‘Trolley Days’ raised funds for the underprivileged
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For pioneers, river crossings sometimes matter of life and death
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Electric cars sparked local interest long before Rivian
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First brick street in U.S. myth endures in Bloomington
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Before railroads, stage lines crisscrossed the prairies
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WW I freighter ‘Evergreen City’ named for Bloomington
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Beloved ‘Rags’ rode the rails to local fame
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Airship pays visit to downtown Bloomington in 1910
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Back to school 1946 meant return to normalcy
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Intrepid Pantagrapher paid visit to Santa’s North Pole
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Labor leader product of west side railroad shops
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Oxen the original ‘work horses’ of the prairie

Biographies

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Hawkins, Absalom

Blog

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Carlock from the Air Circa 1930

Photo of the Week, 16: Cropsey Railroad Station

Bloomington Municipal Airport June 20, 1941

Heyworth High and Environs January 1933

Future Flying Farmers? Bloomington Municipal Airport, 1953

Ozark Air Lines Touches Down Bloomington Municipal Airport, Nov. 6, 1950

Men with Hats Passenger Service Inaugurated Old ‘Bloomington’ Airport, 1931

Bloomington Municipal Airport Terminal, April 1964

Inaugural Bloomington Flight Ozark Air Lines, Nov. 6, 1950

Photo of the Week, 17: Tracy Green & Co., circa 1928

Photo of the Week, 18: 1,000 License Plates Contributed in WW II Drive

Photo of the Week, 71: Grim Reapers Pay Respects to Fallen Comrade

Photo of the Week, 84: 'Bloody 66' claims 4 victims in early February 1939

Chenoa Airport, 1948

‘Lucky Lindy’ Bails Out November 1926

Veterans Parkway as the Route 66 ‘Beltline’ December 1960

Parking meters perplex motorists Downtown Bloomington, May 1941

Unfinished Business Interstate 74 , October 1965

National Air Mail Week May 1938

Illinois Terminal Railroad September 1950. Pt. 2

C.W. Frey’s Showroom Downtown Bloomington, circa 1929-30

“A City Unto Itself” Chicago & Alton RR Shops

‘Union’ Depot, December 1979 Bloomington’s West Side

B-29 Bomber Visits Courthouse Square June 13, 1950

Union Bus Station, 1956 523 N. East Street, Bloomington

Twilight of the Interurban Downtown Bloomington, 1950

The Shape of Things to Come Brunton’s First Delivery Truck, 1908

Mother Road Turns Deadly October 28, 1949

Randolph from On High Undated Aerial

The Tilbury Flash on display at Central Illinois Regional Airport

Finding Aids

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Illinois Traction Terminal
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Bridgestone Firestone
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Chicago & Alton Railroad Miscellaneous
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Childers, James Railroad

Garst, Elmer Record Book

Mitsubishi Motors

Illinois Central Railroad

Gossard, Steve Railroad

Gulf Mobile & Ohio

Haxel Railroading

Railroad Books—Miscellaneous

Railroad Fatalities

Railroad Time Books

Bloomington, Illinois Aviation 1920, 1930, 1940

Airline Timetable Collection

Amtrak Timetables
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Tilbury Flash

Aviation Collection

Bus Transit

Freedom Train

Route 66

Speakers Bureau

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Before Rivian: The Henney Kilowatt--Bloomington's Battery-powered 'Car of Tomorrow'

McLean County: Transportation Crossroads

What's Coming Down the Line? The Railroad in the American Mind

McLean County Lost: An Illustrated Tour of Vanished Worlds

Videos

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Social Justice History Walking Tour

Carlock from the Air Circa 1930

Photo of the Week, 16: Cropsey Railroad Station

Bloomington Municipal Airport June 20, 1941

Heyworth High and Environs January 1933

Future Flying Farmers? Bloomington Municipal Airport, 1953

Ozark Air Lines Touches Down Bloomington Municipal Airport, Nov. 6, 1950

Men with Hats Passenger Service Inaugurated Old ‘Bloomington’ Airport, 1931

Bloomington Municipal Airport Terminal, April 1964

Inaugural Bloomington Flight Ozark Air Lines, Nov. 6, 1950

Photo of the Week, 17: Tracy Green & Co., circa 1928

Photo of the Week, 18: 1,000 License Plates Contributed in WW II Drive

Photo of the Week, 71: Grim Reapers Pay Respects to Fallen Comrade

Photo of the Week, 84: 'Bloody 66' claims 4 victims in early February 1939

Chenoa Airport, 1948

‘Lucky Lindy’ Bails Out November 1926

Veterans Parkway as the Route 66 ‘Beltline’ December 1960

Parking meters perplex motorists Downtown Bloomington, May 1941

Unfinished Business Interstate 74 , October 1965

National Air Mail Week May 1938

Illinois Terminal Railroad September 1950. Pt. 2

C.W. Frey’s Showroom Downtown Bloomington, circa 1929-30

“A City Unto Itself” Chicago & Alton RR Shops

‘Union’ Depot, December 1979 Bloomington’s West Side

B-29 Bomber Visits Courthouse Square June 13, 1950

Union Bus Station, 1956 523 N. East Street, Bloomington

Twilight of the Interurban Downtown Bloomington, 1950

The Shape of Things to Come Brunton’s First Delivery Truck, 1908

Mother Road Turns Deadly October 28, 1949

Randolph from On High Undated Aerial

The Tilbury Flash on display at Central Illinois Regional Airport