RailsWest Railroad Museum

Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Passenger Depot
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


Location	1512 S. Main St., Council Bluffs, Iowa
Coordinates	41°14′49″N 95°51′8″W / 41.24694°N 95.85222°W / 41.24694; -95.85222Coordinates: 41°14′49″N 95°51′8″W / 41.24694°N 95.85222°W / 41.24694; -95.85222
Area	less than one acre
Built	1899
Architect	Chief Engineer, CRI & PRR; Volk, John, & Co.
Architectural style	Romanesque
NRHP Reference #	95000856^[1]
Added to NRHP	July 21, 1995

RailsWest Railroad Museum is a railroad museum operated by the Historical Society of Pottawattamie County at 16th Avenue and South Main Street and illustrates the history of railroads in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

History

The museum is housed inside an Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad passenger depot that was also used by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific. The depot opened in 1899 and would become a daily stop for the Rocky Mountain Rocket, Midwest Hiawatha, the Arrow, and Corn Belt Rocket before the end of passenger service in 1970. Similar Rock Island passenger depots were also constructed in Iowa City, Iowa and Ottawa, Illinois.

Museum

RailsWest includes historical exhibits on the eight railroads that served the community along with displays on the Railway Mail Service and an extensive HO scale model railroad. Adjacent to the historic depot are Union Pacific locomotive 814 and Chicago, Burlington and Quincy locomotive 915, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad and Chicago, Burlington and Quincy cabooses, a 1953 switch engine built by the Plymouth Locomotive Works, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Omaha lounge car, a Union Pacific boxcar, and Union Pacific Railway Post Office car 5908. RailsWest is adjacent to tracks of the Union Pacific, BNSF, and Iowa Interstate Railroad with a fenced-in area for railfanning.

Union Pacific 814
Union Pacific 814 side view
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy 915

References

↑ Staff (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.

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Preceding station		Rock Island Line		Following station
Omaha toward Denver or Colorado Springs		Main Line		Weston toward Chicago (LaSalle Street Station)

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