This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Beatty - to - Williams Classification: Lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4136 Message Board Post: HOLT COUNTY SENTINEL. Oregon, Missouri. August 14, 1868. "FINISHED".--The last rail on the St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad was laid last Monday and the first train through to Council Bluffs passed upon Tuesday morning. The road is now owned, we understand, by the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad Company, who will from this time forward run through with regularity. Elegant new cars and engines have been received, built expressly for this road, and have taken the place of the ones heretofore used. HOLT COUNTY SENTINEL. Oregon, Missouri. November 27, 1868. "The St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad".-- This road, which hitherto has been owned by two different companies -- the portion south of the Iowa line by the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad Company, and the portion north of said line by Messrs. Phelps an others -- is now owned entirely by the proprietors of the Hannibal and St. Joseph road. The whole line will hereafter be known as the St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad. A new time table went into effect on the road, commencing last Sunday, which is printed at the head of our local column this week. THE COUNCIL BLUFFS CHRONOTYPE. July 11, 1855. "RAILROAD CONVENTION".--Pursuant to previous notice, a Convention was held on the 4th of July, 1855, at Sidney, in Fremont county, Iowa, for the purpose of taking into consideration, the propriety and expediency of forming a Rail Road connection between St. Joseph, Missouri, Council Bluffs City, Iowa, and the intermediate Towns: Col. W. Broadus Thompson of St. Joseph, was called to the Chair, Jefferson P. Casady, Esq., L. P. Stringfield, Thomas Farmer and Thomas McAdams, were appointed Vice Presidents, and Robert L. Douglass and L. Lingenfelter, Secretaries. Col.Thompson, on taking the Chair, made a beautiful and appropriate address, relative to the object of the Convention. The following delegates appeared and took part in the proceedings: 1. St. Joseph: Col. W. Broadus Thompson, Thomas E. Bottom, Esq.,Col. J.K. Burgess, of St Joseph. 2. Council Bluffs City: C. E. Stone, Esq., Jefferson P. Casady, Esq., Robert L. Douglass, Esq., of Council Bluffs City. 3. Mills County, Iowa: J. D. Tutt, J. A. Hays, L. H. Stringfield of Mills county, Iowa 4. Atchison county, Missouri: Thomas M. McAdams, N. W. Swift of Atchison county, Missoui. 5. Fremont county, Iowa: Sen H. G. Barton, J. C. Beatty, Chauncey Cowles, Thomas Davis, Doctor William Dewey, G. P. Easton, H. W. English, John Farmer, Thomas Farmer, Edmund Fisher, A. Fletcher, A. J. Gillman, T. M. Gordon, Henry Holloway, John Kelsey,William Kelsey, Hnery Keyser, George Lacey, Littlebury Lingenfelter, Esq., A.Mann, Robert Marshall, M. F.Platt, Benjamin Rector, Fred Rector, M. Richards, T.W. Ripley, A. S. Roberts, J. C. Scott, Hon. E. H. Sears, J. Sherman, A. J. Singleton, J. L. Smith, Albert Whiting, Thadeus Williams, all of Fremont county. ...Etc...Etc...Etc. N.B.: Any progress on building this railroad was interrupted by the Civil War, 1861 - 1865, but the work on it was reinstated immediately afterwards. ....This is the railroad which I took at Hamburg, Iowa in order to attend school in Kansas City, Missouri. During the 1940's, it had a passenger car as well as a dining car. However, I believe these were removed soon afterwards, in the 1950's. It is still very much in operation.--W.F.