Re: [CBQ] Building An Empire

["Bill Scott wscott@optonline.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

On page 10 of the Library documents there is a poster for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad - St Louis, St Paul &Omaha Express. At the bottom of the flyer the railroad offers meals for “only 75 cents.”  The date on the post is “1876?”  Assuming that the date is correct, I went to an inflation calculator, at https://westegg.com/inflation/infl.cgi  and found that 75 cents in 1876 is the equivalent of $17.53 today.  That’s a lot, I think.

Bill Scott

On Jan 25, 2018, at 3:27 AM, Rupert Gamlen gamlenz@hotmail.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

The Newberry Library has posted a gallery of 155 Burlington-related pictorial items – photos, documents, maps, etc. – under the title of “CB&Q : Building an Empire”  at  http://publications.newberry.org/cbqempire/items/browse 

Item include -
Harrison Street freight house

Drawing of proposed bridge across the Mississippi at Burlington 1868
Proposal to rename company as Chicago, Burlington, Quincy & Pacific 1873

Chalender diagram for sleeping car 1878
Loco painting instructions 1890
The old Chicago Union Station 1914

Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ

 

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