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Network Links to Railroad and Historical Sites
Cat = R/railroad, H/historical, C/commercial, T/travel, H/hobby, O/other

No.	Cat	Title	URL	Description
1	H	Gateway Western	https://www.american-rails.com/gateway-western-railway.html	Historical view of the Gateway Western Railroad, old B&O, ICG, and Chicago & Alton trackage.
11	H	Marty Bernard photos	http://railfan44.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-last-decade-of-cb-on-racetrack.html	Historic photos of CB&Q on the Racetrack
12	H	Semaphores	http://railfan44.blogspot.com/2016/11/an-8-photo-sequence-of-semaphores.html	Reading Semaphores
13	H	Marty Bernard Galleries	http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/archiveThumbs.aspx?id=16736	Marty Bernard galleries on RR Picture Archive
14	H	Castle Graphics Railroad Photos	http://transport.castlegraphics.com	Huge repository of vintage railroad photos, including a large number of CB&Q photos
15	H	Museum of the Rockies Photo Archive	http://www.morphotoarchive.org/rvndb/index.html	Good assortment of photos, includes C&S, CB&Q & FW&D
16	H	Five Chime Consultants	http://atsf.railfan.net/airhorns/	Information on vintage air horns, including sound samples
17	H	Bridge Hunter	http://bridgehunter.com/	A database of historic or notable bridges in the United States, past and present, including railroad bridges.
18	O	CB&Q class diagrams	http://www.home.earthlink.net/~vnlbeck/	Class diagrams are schematic, non scale drawings of equipment and include important dimensions and weights.
19	H	USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer	http://historicalmaps.arcgis.com/usgs/	Find historic USGS maps of many areas US wide.
20	D	The Trolley Dodger	https://thetrolleydodger.com/	Blog with photos, but also has online store with some great books and also out-of-circulation audio records with railroad content
21	H	HathiTrust Digital Library	https://www.hathitrust.org/	Online library with tons of historical books & records.
22	H	Aurora Roundhouse & Shops Historic Record	https://cdn.loc.gov/master/pnp/habshaer/il/il0300/il0390/data/il0390data.pdf	Massive online document by Nat. Park Service, very detailed, 121 pages
23	H	CB&Q in commercial	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0JOLiX1wsg	John Deere TV commercial with tractors on a Q train.
24	H	Utah Rails	http://utahrails.net/	Provides in-depth historical information about railroading in Utah, including a huge photo gallery
25	H	Lee Gautreaux RailGoat Page	http://www.railgoat.railfan.net/index.htm	Photos from various railroads, click on Selected Card from other Railroads Link below for CB&Q
26	H	Newbury Library CB&Q online exhibition	http://publications.newberry.org/cbqempire/items/browse	Large collection of documents & photos
27	H	E & F unit photo collection	https://www.flickr.com/groups/e_and_f_units/pool/	Large collection of E & F unit photos from various railroads (Flickr)
28	H	Daily Life Along the CB&Q	http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/nby_rrlife	CARLI Digital Collection of photos from a 1955 centennial request to capture the CB&Q.
29	H	USGS Aerial Topography Maps	https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/	USGS site for historical aerial photos
32	H	Employee Timetables - CB&Q CUS	http://wx4.org/to/foam/maps/and_timetables5.html	hundreds of timetable pdfs for many Midwest railroads including over 100 Chicago Union Station employee timetables and a number of CB&Q employee timetables. These are timetables I have scanned.
33	O	Test Link with bad URL	www.highparkdrive.org	Testing
34	H	Rio Grande Modeling & Historical Society	https://www.rgmhs.org/	Mission of preserving, disseminating and sharing the history of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad its predecessors.
35	H	HathiTrust	https://www.hathitrust.org/	HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. This source induces inventory of pre-1923 material railroad related material. This includes CB&Q directors reports, tourism books, CB&Q official his
36	H	Linda Hall Library	http://lhldigital.lindahall.org/cdm/search/collection/rrjournal/order/title/ad/asc	This will give you access to 7500+ railroad magazines up to 1900, including Railroad Master Mechanic, National Car Builder, Railroad Car Journal, etc. which are not available elsewhere. You cannot view the books on-line but need to download each issue separately.
37	H	Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, Inc	http://www.rlhs.org/Publications/RailHistoryIndex/	The Society promotes research and encourages preservation of documentation and photography of business history, finance, labor history, and biography as well as technology. The R&LHS has in its archives a large collection of photographs, probably the largest general collection of photographs of Amer
38	H	Archive/Library of Congress	https://archive.org/search.php?query=CB%26Q&sin=TXT	Archive is part of the Library of Congress. Limited material but has some books and magazines not found elsewhere.
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