Voices from the Prairie Fall 2010

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A publication of Humanities Iowa • Fall 2010


HI Board of Directors President Fiona Valentine, Sioux CityVice-President Tim Johnson, WashingtonSecretary Barb O’Hea, PeostaTreasurer Jeff Heland, BurlingtonPast President Neil Nakadate, Ames

Directors George Barlow, GrinnellGraciela Caneiro-Livingston, DubuqueSue Cosner, West Des MoinesTom Dean, Iowa CityKate Gronstal, Council BluffsKen Lyftogt, Cedar FallsSam Mulgrew, PeostaMoudy Nabulsi, Fort MadisonSally Phelps, SpencerDick Ramsay, Spirit LakeSteve Siegel, OttumwaDorothy Simpson-Taylor, Cedar RapidsRalph Swain, Sioux City

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Contents—

3 Trains & Steam & Iowa 4 If We Build the Rail road, They Will Come 6 The Worst Wreck Ever

7 Iowa Writers' Celebration 8 Union Pacific Museum

10 Events

11 Prairie Lights & Grants

12 Grants

About the Cover: Great Northern Rly. Extra 3383 East, Kandiyohi, Minnesota © David Plowden Find out more about Mr. Plowden and our Annual Iowa Writers' Celebration in this issue.

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"Boarding a train at a small town like Allerton was entirely different from boarding a train at a terminal such as La Salle Street Station in Chicago. When you arrived at La Salle Street Station, the train was waiting for you. When you arrived at a small-town depot like Allerton's, you waited for the train. The waiting, anticipation, and growing excitement made the difference. To this you could add the gradual transformation of the depot from a lonely little building into a place of intense interest, activity, and urgency. When you first saw the light of the locomotive in the distance and heard the sound of the whistle, you could not repress the feeling of elation that caused your pulse to quicken and your body to tremble."

from Central Standard (Univ. of Iowa, 2002), by Patrick Irelan. Patrick Irelan's other books include Firefly In The Night and Reruns.

This fall Humanities Iowa will host our 11th Voices from the Prairie, Iowa Writers' Celebration featuring essayist and photographer David Plowden. In honor of Mr. Plowden's love of trains and good writing we present an issue on trains and steam and Iowa.

Trains & Steam & Iowa

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Iowa is known as the "Hawkeye State" and the "Tall Corn State." It should also be known as the "Railroad

State," because Iowans have contrib-uted so many important innovations to railroading. Iowa has accomplished firsts in everything from rail car design to safety appliances, to cultural norms. As far as railroading is concerned, one might say, "the way Iowa went, so went the nation!" The state is the perfect ex-ample of, "If we build the railroad, they will come."

During the early 1800s, Iowa found it difficult to attract settlers to the new territory. Farmers could not take ad-vantage of the rich soil because they could not practically haul their crops over land to markets on the east and west coasts. Farming, therefore, could only take place to any significant de-gree along Iowa’s few navigable rivers and then, only for short distances. When the state encouraged the laying of track westward from the Mississippi to the Missouri River, people came.

Iowa became a classic example of land development led by the railroads. Soon a spider web of tracks networked and covered the state. The population in-creased as track mileage grew. With 650 miles of track in 1860, Iowa had 674,900

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residents. With 2,700 miles of track in 1870, Iowa’s population doubled to over 1,200,000 people. By World War I, Iowa had over 10,500 miles of track and no community was more than 15 miles from a depot. It was said that one could walk in a straight line from anywhere in Iowa and cross railroad tracks within 13 miles! Because of railroad transpor-tation, farmers could move to Iowa to feed the nation and the world.

The web of trackage, however, is only part of the story. An Iowa ex-planation helps clear up why railroad rails are four-feet, eight-and-one-half inches (4' 8-½") apart. While this mea-surement originated from a colliery in Northumberland, England, where the first strongest and fastest steam locomotives were built and tested, the truth is that Iowa played a dominant role in the choosing of this gauge (the distance between the two rails) for the United States, Canada, and Mexico. In 1856, the Iowa Legislature stipulated that railroad lines building across the state would receive assistance if their gauge was 4' 8-½."

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States. During these early years railroad companies did not want another's cars rolling down their tracks; therefore, the different gauges. Some were a narrow three feet. Five feet was somewhat popular in the South. Ohio had its own 4' 10". The New York and Erie had the widest with a 6 foot gauge! Two of the largest rail systems at that time had close enough gauges: The Baltimore & Ohio (B & O) had a 4' 8-½" and the Pennsylvania (Pennsy) had a 4' 9" gauge. For all practical purposes the half inch difference made the Pennsy interchangeable with the B & O. As the nation grew and industrialization developed, however, everyone knew that the gauge would eventually need to be standardized.

This drive for standardization first came about during the Civil War with Iowa holding the big trump card. While fighting continued, Congress passed the Pacific Railroad Act to build a transcontinental railroad line from Omaha to California. Congress left it to President Lincoln to set the gauge of the tracks. Anyone who was anybody in rail-roading knew that what Lincoln set would eventually be-come the "standard gauge" of the nation. Lincoln leaned toward the five-foot gauge at first, and then declared it to be 4' 8-½". What happened? Why did Lincoln choose this odd number?

The Pennsy and B & O fit this standard, and so did some railroads in Illinois. Iowa’s lines, all of which crossed the state to meet in Council Bluffs—across from Omaha—were 4' 8-½". Iowa’s gauge provided a seamless passage of cars from the east to the Missouri River. That seamlessness could con-tinue all the way to California, if the transcontinental was 4' 8-½". As the transcontinental was being built, moreover, there were plans and designs to bridge the Missouri River at Council Bluffs. The cornerstone to the whole construction was Iowa! Within a four month period, ending in June, 1886, most of the nation’s railroads became the 4' 8-½" standard or more exactly, the Iowa Gauge! So, as far as railroading is concerned, as Iowa went, so went the nation.

Rudy Daniels, Ph.D., (pictured above) has been a member of the Humanities Iowa Speakers Bureau for over 20 years. He has taught history at several colleges and universities in Iowa and was De-partment Chair of Railroad Operations Technology at Western Iowa Tech in Sioux City. He has written Trains Across the Continent: North American Railroad History (Indiana University Press) at the request of the Class I Railroads of the United States and Canada. In 2008, he completed Sioux City Railroads: Images of Rail (Arcadia Publishing). He is cur-rently writing a book on United States railroads during World War I.

To find out more about the Humanities Iowa Speakers Bureau go to our website www.humanitiesiowa.org

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There'd been a wreck at Shellsburg due to all the weekend rain. The Rock Island had to find a route to run its morn-ing train. From Cedar Rapids on to Marshalltown they found a way. To get that train to Waterloo and send it on that day. They couldn't use the wye track in the Great Western yard, so they hooked the engines to the rear and started pulling hard. Running backwards up the line it should have been forseen. That the new steel cars were at the back with wooded cars between.

Chorus: Oh Grandpa heard that awful crash. He joined the other men to help the hurt and suffering in the wreck of nineteen ten.

They should have switched those wooden cars and put them on behind. Before they started out of town and got into a bind. The train was running slowly and there was no turning back. Then a brake beam dropped and sent the locomotive off the track. Both engines hit the ground and stopped and they were in a jam. Those steel cars kept moving on just like a battering ram. The wooden cars were smashed to kindling killing most inside. When the count was finally tallied fifty-seven people died. (Chorus)

Though help rushed there from all around to see to everyone. The loss of life was terrible before the day was done. More than twenty doctors tried to save the badly hurt. As they pulled the injured out and tried to tend them in the dirt. The news went out that cold March day to papers far and wide. The headlines said it was the worst and all those people died. Eighty-six years later it's a tragic accident. Though the trains are gone and tracks are pulled there's still a monument. (Chorus)

the worst wreck ever by Denny Rehder

Denny Rehder is a local historian and part of the Humanities Iowa Speakers Bureau. His avocation for nearly fifty years has been music. He now combines his musical ability with Iowa railroad history. Rehder has been involved as author, editor, publisher, photographer or researcher in the publication of seven books on sub-jects of Iowa history. He grew up watching the trains of the Chicago Great Western mainline.

I grew up a mile west of Gladbrook on a farm fronting Iowa Hwy 96. I had heard stories about the huge wreck of March

21, 1910, a few miles away. My dad, who was born in August of that year, told me that his dad, Alex Rehder, heard the sound of the wreck, mounted his fastest horse, and spent the day helping get the dead and wounded out of the tangled mass.

This was one of the worst railroad disasters in American history and in the world at that time.

Today, there is a monument along the road near the site. It's overgrown with a juniper someone planted, but the impact remains. When I was commissioned to develop an official Iowa Sesquicentennial Event on Iowa railroad history, this was one of my first songs, The Worst Wreck Ever (lyr-ics below).

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Requiem for SteamA visual lament for the end of the steam train's reign, but also a photo collection that recaptures the thrill of the steam locomotive. Why do we have such a fascination with steam trains to this day? Why such nostalgia for these spontaneous cloud-building machines? These locomotives were replaced out of practicality it would seem, but practicality, like progress, doesn't necessarily satisfy nostalgia and the imagination. With steam engines we were given the chance to be up-close with large machinery in action. We don't get to stand along the runway at an airport, but we did get to stand on the platform at the train station as the steam locomotive engine came screeching, howling, steaming to us. The sight of a train arriving is a thrill, even to this day. It's as though we can't believe they make it to us. So yes, the steam is gone, but the thrill of the steam is still with us and in some ways this is a big part of what seemed to attract us to them in the first place—anticipation. This collection of photos is a captivating group of visually honest, emotionally filled steam engines which once again allow us to drift and dream and reconnect with both the practical and magical world of trains—a realm where silence can so suddenly fill with sound and steam.

As a child, David Plowden was given a box camera, and before long he began to photograph railroad trains. As he matured and started on what would become a lifetime in photography, trains—specifically steam locomotives—became one of his passions, and then they were eclipsed by modern diesel locomotives. It is our good fortune that Plowden was on the scene at the end, documenting what would become his latest book, Requiem for Steam, his reverent tribute to the steam era.

David Plowden is the author of more than twenty photography books, including Bridges: The Spans of North America, Vanishing Point: Fifty Years of Photography, and Requiem for Steam. He lives in Winnetka, Illinois.

This year's Humanities Iowa, Voices from the Prairie, Annual Iowa Writers' Celebration will feature David Plowden, essayist and renowned documentary photographer of small towns, farmlands, and trains. Mr. Plowden, who is at the pinnacle of his career, was chosen for his long-standing relationship with Humanities Iowa and for his new book on steam engines. This year's celebration will include a tour across Iowa, beginning on Tuesday, October 12 and ending Thursday, October 14. Plowden's tour will start in Iowa City where he will appear at 10 AM on "Talk of Iowa" on Iowa Public Radio followed by a book signing at Prairie Lights bookstore at 6 PM. On Wednesday, October 13, he will give a slideshow presentation followed by a book signing at the Council Bluffs Public Library

at 6 PM. Plowden will finish his tour in Sioux City, at Western Iowa Tech Community College on October 14, during which he will give a slideshow presentation followed by a book signing at 6:30 PM. The Annual Iowa Writers' Celebration is supported by a grant from the Iowa West Foundation.

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Humanities All Around Us: Iowa is rich with public opportunities to explore the humanities. We look forward to sharing them with you in each issue of Voices from the Prairie.

the union Pacific railroad museum 200 Pearl Street Council Bluffs, Ia

Open Tuesday – Saturday, 10am – 4pm. admission is free.

We caught up with Union Pacific museum director, beth lindquist, to find out more about this unique museum housed along the Missouri River in Iowa.

HI: What a nice looking building. What's the story on it?The Union Pacific Railroad Museum is housed in a restored Carnegie Library building, originally built in 1903. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places. After a new library was built in 1997 the Council Bluffs community banded together to preserve the building and turn it into a museum. Their efforts caught the attention of Union Pacific who was looking for a site for their historic collection. Through the efforts of the community and Union Pacific the museum opened in May, 2003.

HI: What can people expect to find at the museum? The Union Pacific Railroad Museum tells the history of Union Pacific from the Railroad Act of 1862 through the heyday of passenger travel to the modern freight railroad of today. The Union Pacific and Central Pacific built the first transcontinental railroad linking the east and west coast. This opened up the expansion of the west to thousands of Americans and immigrants. In addition to the Union Pacific story we also talk about western expansion from Iowa to California

The newest addition to the Museum is “America Travels by Rail.” This permanent exhibit, costing well over $500,000, immerses the visitor in the glitz and glamour of 20th-century passenger rail travel. Thousands of images, artifacts and advertising material from the Union Pacific collection are on display in this interactive passenger travel experience.

HI: Why is the museum in Council Bluffs?The eastern terminus for the transcontinental railroad was specified as the location across the river from Omaha by an executive order signed by President Abraham Lincoln. That area is now Council Bluffs. So mile post "0" for the first transcontinental railroad is located in Council Bluffs. Council Bluffs is a very large railroad town and at one time had nine different railroads operating in the city. With the community engaged in the library restoration, a history of railroads in the city, and Union Pacific looking for community involvement with their historic collection, the two entities worked together to develop the Union Pacific Railroad Museum.

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HI: What's something people would be surprised to find at the museum? Many of our visitors are surprised at the amount of American history in general that we tell with our exhibits. They are surprised to find furniture that was used in Abraham Lincoln’s funeral car and older maps and surveys dating back to the mid-1850s.

HI: In what way did the Union Pacific shape life in the Midwest? Iowa?Union Pacific shaped the life of the Midwest by expanding the possibilities of land ownership beyond the Missouri River and by providing access to products (farm equipment, appliances, fresh produce, etc.) not otherwise available without the railroad. Today, Union Pacific shapes the life of the Midwest by providing jobs and also transporting the products we use in everyday living such as produce from California, automobiles, appliances, lumber, coal, etc., and by providing shipping of Iowa products outside the state.

HI: How can people get involved with the Union Pacific Railroad Museum today?The Union Pacific Railroad Museum is always looking for volunteers to assist in many areas such as floor hosts, gift shop sales, tour guides and collections assistance. Anyone interested can contact us at 712-329-8307 or go online at www.uprrmuseum.org. The Museum also takes donations of items related to the Union Pacific Rail-road.

HI: As the museum director, who are three famous railroad people you'd like to have dinner with?First of all, Abraham Lincoln. He was a huge proponent of railroads and as presi-dent he signed the Railroad Acts of 1862 and 1864, the first of which created Union Pacific Railroad, and he also signed the Presidential Order confirming the east-ern terminus of the transcontinental rail-road. Second would be General Grenville Dodge, the chief engineer of the building of the Union Pacific’s transcontinental rail line and a long time resident of Council Bluffs. Third would be Averell Harriman, who saw the need to improve passenger travel in the 1930s and developed the first streamliner.

HI: If you could ride on any type of train—steam, coal, diesel, electric—which would it be?Steam is always a fascination to any railroad enthusiast. I think there are several reasons: 1. Except in excursion and special trains, steam is no longer used by any railroad. 2. The steam locomotives are huge and one can stand in awe when next to one of them. 3. The mechanics of watching steam power, the large wheels looks daunting.

The Museum’s first floor covers the first transcontinental railroad and the growth and development of the West.

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For up-to-date event information check the calendar on our website. Septemberwednesday, September 1, 7 PmBarbara Lounsberry: yup...Nope...and Why Midwesterners Don't Say Much. Tama County Museum, 200 N. Broadway St., Toledo, Ia

Saturday, September 4, 12 PmDarrel Draper: George Drouillard: Hunter, Interpreter, and Sign Talker for Lewis and Clark. Lamoni Community Center,108 S. Chestnut St., Lamoni, Ia

monday, September 13, 7 PmBill Sherman: Iowa Country School Milestones.urbandale Historical Society 4010 70th St., urbandale, Ia

wednesday, September 15, 11 AmDarrel Draper: The Life and Times of J. Sterling Morton. Prairie Hills assisted Living Community, 505 enterprise Dr. SW., Independence, Ia

thursday, September 16, 11:30 AmBarbara Lounsberry: yup...Nope...and Why Midwesterners Don't Say Much. Iowa Valley Conference Center Room, 808 3702 S. Center St., Marshalltown, Ia

thursday, September 16, 7 PmMartin Kelly: Hollywood Cowboys.Floyd County Historical Society,500 Gilbert St., Charles City, Ia

Saturday, September 18, 7:30 PmSarah uthoff: General Laura Pro-gram. Sanford Museum,117 e. Willow St., Cherokee, Ia

wednesday, September 22, 6:30 Pm Richard Tyler: Why Save an Old Barn? Halcyon House, 1015 S. Iowa ave., Washington, Ia

thursday, September 23, 7 PmGalin Berrier: The underground Railroad in Iowa. West Branch Public Library, 300 N Downey St.West Branch, Ia

Saturday, September 25, 11 AmBeverly Hinds: Sacajawea and the Lewis and Clark expedition.Merry Brook School, 212 Lincoln Way, Woodbine, Ia

Saturday, September 25, 2 PmO J Fargo: Just Before the Battle Mother: a Visit from a Civil War Sol-dier. Merry Brook School,212 Lincoln Way, Woodbine, Ia

Saturday, September 25, 2 PmSarah uthoff: Packing up.Waukee Public Library,950 Warrior Lane, Waukee, Ia

octoberthursday, october 7, 7 PmO J Fargo: Just Before the Battle Mother: a Visit from a Civil War Sol-dier. Indianola Public Library,201 N. B St., Indianola, Ia

Saturday, october 9, 7 PmRosa Snyder: uncovering Hidden Treasures and untold Stories: The Work of a Restoration Painter and Stories of Famous artists at Iowa’s Capitol. Harlan Community Library, 718 Court St., Harlan, Ia

tuesday, october 19, 6 PmLisa Ossian: The Home Fronts of Iowa 1939-1945. Des Moines Public. Library, Meeting Room One, 1000 Grand avenue, Des Moines, Ia

NovemberSaturday, November 13, 1 PmMary Swander: Girls on the Roof. Cor-alville Public Library, Meeting Room a, 1401 5th St., Coralville, Ia

Saturday, November 13, 7 PmTom Milligan: Grant Wood: Prairie Rebel. Mason City Public Library,225 2nd St., Mason City, Ia

monday, November 15, 7 PmLiving History Farms Speaker: a year with a Pioneer Family.Bradbury Hall, 2211 Nelson Lane,Oskaloosa, Ia

thursday, November 18, 7 PmDenny Rehder: Grass Between the Rails. Historical Society of Marshall County, 202 e. Church St.,Marshalltown, Ia

library reading and discussion Series:monday, September 13, 7 Pm"a Look to the Past."Rolfe Public Library319 Garfield St Rolfe, IaCall 712.848.3143

Saturdays: September 18, october 2, 16, and 30, and No-vember 13 and 27, Confessions of a Biliophile.Burlington Public Library210 Court St., Burlington, Ia Call 319.753.1647

Special event:october 14-16Iowa Writers' Celebration with David Plowden. Iowa City, Council Bluffs, and Sioux City. See page 7 of this issue for times and locations.

Humanities Iowa events


Humanities Iowa partners withPrairie Lights bookstore on YouTube

Humanities Iowa has partnered with Prairie Lights bookstore in Iowa City, Iowa, for a series of web videos featuring Paul Ingram (pictured left). Paul is a well known local bibliophile who has been on Iowa Public Radio broadcasts, and was a featured speaker at the 2010 Iowa City Book Festival. This partnering is also as a result of Iowa City being named the third UNESCO City of Literature and Humanities Iowa's

ongoing efforts to make its programs available to the public. The first web video can be viewed at www.youtube.com/humanitiesiowa along with other Humanities Iowa events.

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Recipient: Iowa City Foreign Rela-tions CouncilAmount: $200Project: Through the Lens of Cul-tural Diplomacy

JohnstonRecipient: Iowa Public TelevisionAmount: $15,000Project: Farm Cri-sis of the 1980s

LamoniRecipient: Civil

War DaysAmount: $5,000Project: 8th An-nual Reenactment and Living History Festival

MarshalltownRecipient: His-torical Society of Marshall CountyAmount: $12,000Project: Movie Star: The Secret Lives of Jean Seberg

Mason CityRecipient: Wright on the Park, Inc.Amount: $4,000

Project: The His-toric Park Inn Hotel

MuscatineRecipient: Friends of Muscatine His-toric PreservationAmount: $1,500Project: Alexander G. Clark, A Legacy

OttumwaRecipient: Indian Hills Community CollegeAmount: $1,000Project: Many Faces, One Vision

PerryRecipient: Dallas County Conserva-tion BoardAmount: $4,850Project: Prairie Awakening—A Journey into Indig-enous Learning

Red Wing, MNRecipient: Pica-resque IIAmount: $7,500Project: The Story of Music, Stories from Home

Seattle, WARecipient: North-

west Film ForumAmount: $14,860Project: 120 Acres: An American Farm

Sioux CityRecipient: Western Iowa Tech Commu-nity CollegeAmount: $500Project: Iowa and the American Civil War

West BranchRecipient: Herbert Hoover Presiden-tial Library Asso-ciation, Inc.Amount: $2,000Project: Writing Herbert Hoover

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AdelRecipient: Main Street Adel Cham-ber of CommerceAmount: $1,400Project: Iowa Book Festival

AmesRecipient: Iowa State University Reiman GardensAmount: $2,212Project: Victorian Garden Ornamen-tation Exhibit

CarrollRecipient: Carroll County Conserva-tion BoardAmount: $9,000Project: M&M Divide Interpretive Park

Coon RapidsRecipient: Creating Great PlacesAmount: $6,000Project: Peace Through Corn

CoralvilleRecipient: Johnson County Historical SocietyAmount: $95Project: Weber Days History Lecture

DavenportRecipient: St. Am-brose UniversityAmount: $5,000Project: The Ubiq-uity of Work

Des MoinesRecipient: Des Moines Art Center

Amount: $3,000Project: 2010 Fall Lecture Series

Recipient: Des Moines Symphony AssociationAmount: $5,000Project: Beyond the Score: New World Symphony

Recipient: GLBT Youth in Iowa Schools Task ForceAmount: $2,610Project: Disman-tling Discrimina-tion; Educating Educators

Recipient: State Historical Society of Iowa

Amount: $5,000Project: Thursday’s Children

DubuqueRecipient: Dubuque County Historical SocietyAmount: $10,000Project: Women & Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America

Recipient: Loras CollegeAmount: $1,000Project: Depression Era Dubuque

Iowa CityRecipient: Univer-sity of IowaAmount: $545Project: The Metro-politan Opera in Iowa

Recipient: Univer-sity of Iowa Center for the BookAmount: $2,745Project: A Residen-cy by the Combat Paper Project

Recipient: Univer-sity of IowaAmount: $10,000Project: Iowa Ar-chaeology Month 2010

Recipient: Univer-sity of IowaAmount: $10,000Project: City of Literature

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