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Indeed what an irony; Abraham Lincoln designated Council Bluffs as the eastern terminus of the transcontinental railroad (Union Pacific milepost zero) in two executive orders, 11/17/1863 and 3/7/1864, yet when the Golden Spike was driven in 1869 in Utah and the transcontinental railroad heralded as complete, Council Bluffs not only wasn’t the origin, it wasn’t even connected to it! Eventually the bridge was built of course and UP opened the Transfer Hotel and the huge UP transfer grounds in CB which remain bustling today. Officially, though, Council Bluffs is Union Pacific’s eastern terminus. A federal circuit court ruled “the Union Pacific’s eastern terminus is on the Iowa side of the Missouri RIver,” a decision upheld by the United States Supreme Court 2/8/1876. Good source of info on this is the excellent Omaha/CB history book “Upstream Metropolis” (University of Nebraska press, 2007). Honestly it’s probably the best local history book around. Omaha Magazine did a pretty good story on this as well in their April issue, 2017, called “How Omaha Railroaded Council Bluffs.”. Brenda Mainwaring did a super job summarizing this complicated (but fun!) story in the video. No shortage of skulduggery in local history :)
@@councilbluffsrevealed4429 Yes, you are absolutely correct in what you say. Council Bluffs was indeed the Eastern terminus, but really only on paper, with there being no bridge across the Missouri river in 1869. It's all very interesting, thank you.
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Thanks so much for the kind words! We really appreciate it, and knowing folks are finding the videos interesting will motivate us to keep on doing them!
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Omaha is the real eastern terminus, not CB.
Indeed what an irony; Abraham Lincoln designated Council Bluffs as the eastern terminus of the transcontinental railroad (Union Pacific milepost zero) in two executive orders, 11/17/1863 and 3/7/1864, yet when the Golden Spike was driven in 1869 in Utah and the transcontinental railroad heralded as complete, Council Bluffs not only wasn’t the origin, it wasn’t even connected to it! Eventually the bridge was built of course and UP opened the Transfer Hotel and the huge UP transfer grounds in CB which remain bustling today. Officially, though, Council Bluffs is Union Pacific’s eastern terminus. A federal circuit court ruled “the Union Pacific’s eastern terminus is on the Iowa side of the Missouri RIver,” a decision upheld by the United States Supreme Court 2/8/1876. Good source of info on this is the excellent Omaha/CB history book “Upstream Metropolis” (University of Nebraska press, 2007). Honestly it’s probably the best local history book around. Omaha Magazine did a pretty good story on this as well in their April issue, 2017, called “How Omaha Railroaded Council Bluffs.”. Brenda Mainwaring did a super job summarizing this complicated (but fun!) story in the video. No shortage of skulduggery in local history :)
@@councilbluffsrevealed4429 Yes, you are absolutely correct in what you say. Council Bluffs was indeed the Eastern terminus, but really only on paper, with there being no bridge across the Missouri river in 1869. It's all very interesting, thank you.
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