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The Alliance Commercial Historic District, located roughly along Box Butte Ave. in Alliance, Nebraska is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. It includes Romanesque and Mission/Spanish Revival architecture amidst its 44 contributing buildings over 17.4 acres (7.0 ha).
Alliance is located at the western edge of Nebraska's Sand Hills. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 4.73 square miles (12.25 km 2 ), of which 4.72 square miles (12.22 km 2 ) is land and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km 2 ) is water.
Union Pacific employs more than 2,600 people in North Platte, [1] most of whom are responsible for the day-to-day operations of Bailey Yard. An average of 139 trains and over 14,000 railroad cars pass through Bailey Yard every day. The yard sorts approximately 3,000 cars daily using the yard's two humps. The eastbound hump is a 34 foot (10 m ...
1895 house expanded into a hotel in 1914—when Long Pine boomed as a major railroad terminus—exhibiting an old-fashioned "longitudinal block" layout more typical of Nebraska's earliest hotels. [26] Now a local history museum. [27]
Burlington and Missouri River Railroad, 1882. The Burlington and Missouri River Railroad (B&MR) or sometimes (B&M) was an American railroad company incorporated in Iowa in 1852, with headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska. It was developed to build a railroad across the state of Iowa and began operations in 1856.
May 17 – Grand Island, Nebraska; May 19 – Alliance, Nebraska; May 20 – Casper, ... July 5–July 9 – Chicago, Illinois (Chicago Railroad Fair) July 10 ...
Nebraska, Wyoming and Western Railroad: CB&Q: 1899 1908 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad: North-Eastern Nebraska Railroad: CNW: 1888 1888 Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway: Northern Nebraska Air Line Railroad: CNW: 1867 1868 Sioux City and Pacific Railroad: Omaha Belt Railway: MP: 1883 1910 Missouri Pacific Railway
On November 3, 1871, the railroad absorbed the Atchison, Lincoln and Columbus Railroad, and completed building the railroad north into Lincoln, Nebraska, by the fall of 1872. [2] On January 24, 1908, a special meeting of stockholders in the A&N was held to discuss the sale of the railroad to the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. [3]