- 1. [CBQ] H&STJ History (score: 1)
- Author: "Roger & Sylvia Hanson" <nu2us@birch.net>
- Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:02:36 -0500
- Here's one for the Hannibal and St.Jo historians out there. (H&STJ later became part of the 'Q'). My great-grandfather left Portland, OR in the spring of 1857 to settle near Hiawatha, Brown County Ka
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-10/msg00031.html (9,400 bytes)
- 2. Re: [CBQ] H&STJ History (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
- Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:46:04 -0500
- What railroad would he have taken from Portland, OR??? The CP and UP did not start building until 1862 and it wasn't completed until 1869. There were no other lines from west to east for a couple of
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-10/msg00032.html (10,600 bytes)
- 3. RE: [CBQ] H&STJ History (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Lotz" <dave_lotz@charter.net>
- Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 23:17:02 -0500
- Hi Roger, This is an easy one. If your great-grandfather was traveling eastward from Oregon to Kansas, he could not have traveled by train. The first transcontinental railroad was not completed until
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-10/msg00033.html (11,445 bytes)
- 4. RE: [CBQ] H&STJ History (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Lotz" <dave_lotz@charter.net>
- Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 23:22:21 -0500
- By golly, there is a Portland, OH! The H&St. J only reached as far as Bevier on May 11, 1858, and the line eastward from St. Joe had only progressed 10 miles by August 1, 1858. Dave Lotz What railroa
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-10/msg00034.html (12,233 bytes)
- 5. Re: [CBQ] H&STJ History (score: 1)
- Author: Ken Martin <kmartin@cwia.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:53:55 -0700
- Roger Assuming it is Portland, OH not OR by todays highways it is 300 miles to Hannibal and 870 miles to Hiawatha, KS. At ten miles a day that would be three months to travel that. Assuming that Port
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2004-10/msg00035.html (10,908 bytes)
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