Re: [CBQ] Council Bluffs exchange

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The Council Bluffs Transfer Depot and Hotel became a major terminus for UP trains. Passengers would transfer here from other east coast trains (the Chicago & North Western, the Burlington, and the Rock Island) to their Union Pacific trains. A hotel was included to provide for overnight stays and meal service for the passengers who were forced to wait for their next train. The station soon became a major mail transfer point as well for Railway Mail Service.  The hotel closed in 1929; however, the remainder of  the facility continued in operation.  [4] 

Designed by U.P. Superintendent S.H. Clark, the building  featured black walnut and white pine interior with 20 foot high ceilings on the first floor.  The south wing of the Depot was home to five express companies while the north wing included an elegant dining room, saloon, barbershop, newsstand, lunch counter, and waiting rooms segregated by sex.  

The hotel was on the second floor and stretched along a 207 foot long hallway with two large parlors located at each end.  Nearby was the less luxurious Emigrant House with a bakery, laundry, land office, and room for cold storage where thousands waited on their way to make a new life in the West.  Large stockyards were also located at the Transfer Grounds as Council Bluffs grew into a major shipping point for western livestock.  

1. http://www.thehistoricalsociety.org/depot%20extended.htm

2. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ia0027/

3. "The Development of the Union Pacific Transfer Grounds at Council Bluffs" By Ryan Roenfeld https://books.google.com/books?id=4cadAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA31

4. "Railroads in Council Bluffs and Pottawattamie County." https://www.thehistoricalsociety.org/history-online/railroads-in-cb-and-pottawattamie-county.html

5. "Union Pacific Station (Transfer Depot & Hotel), Twenty-first Street, Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, IA Photos from Survey HABS IA-30-6" https://www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.ia0027.sheet?q=IOWA+Union&st=gallery  (11 Drawings)

6. https://loc.getarchive.net/media/union-pacific-station-transfer-depot-and-hotel-twenty-first-street-council-2 (41 photos)

7. https://collections.carli.illinois.edu/digital/collection/nby_rrlife/id/793/rec/75

8. https://www.thehistoricalsociety.org/history-online/council-bluffs-moved-the-mail.html

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