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Thank you to all the authors that made these pages possible. Through their research bringing to light historical facts about trains, and history. Though many articles and pictures are public domain, I salute you all those who have come before to document these events in time. If we know the author of such materials PD we are honored to post them with such credit.

History Porthole:Many people throughout the Internet community lay 'claim' to certain materials. This site researches all materials and seeks out the proper owner or author of such materials. What is Public Domain? This simply means that anyone may use them without permission. This applies to U.S. works where the copyright has expired, often because its first publication occurred prior to January 1, 1923. Most pictures were taken by Dan Wheeler using a Fuji S700 camera. Banners, buttons, clip art created using Paint Pro, ULead Photo 10 RESOURCES: Not all articles within this web site were created entirely by this ministry or Rev. Dan Wheeler. Articles and materials are used, some word for word with the permission of the owner or author of such materials. Many authors including but not limited to printed books and text have been used, just as they were written. The research within these pages have taken hundreds of hours and we again can't give enough thanks to all those authors and owners, research societies and so many more that have contributed in the history porthole. Click here to read full resource list used.Most of the research within our history pages was done through the Wheeling Ohio County Library/and The Wheeling Room/ Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia/West Virginia Division of Culture and History/Goggle Earth license/ Cass Scenic Railroad State park Cass WV/Toy and Train Museum Elm Grove West Virginia/U.S.Route 40.net/Historical Society's of West Virginia/Ohio/MN/PA/The Founding of the Roman Empire by Frank Burr Marsh. The Church in the Roman Empire by Erwin R. Goodenough.Childhood in the Roman Empire: Ray Laurence Considers How Children Were Seen in Ancient Rome and Looks at Some of the Harsher Aspects of Childhood-Sickness, Violence and Endless World Magazine article by Ray Laurence; History Today, Vol. 55, October 2005

References/ Credits due to works used in my railroad pages. Permissions granted by authors and owners of certain materials. The materials within my train pages are from several authors. The Funeral train Pictures of Lincoln are Public domain. Harrisburg Funeral Train complements of the PA Historical Society.Henry Varnum Poor, Manual of the Railroads of the United States for 1870-71 (New York: H.V. & H.W. Poor, 1870), p. xxviii. James A. Ward, J. Edgar Thomson: Master of the Pennsylvania (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1980), p. 11. Daniel J. Boorstin, The Americans: The Democratic Experience (New York: Random House, 1965), p. 18. Thurman W. Van Metre, Transportation in the United States (Brooklyn: Foundation Press, 1950), p. 31.
The reports to these surveys have not been found. See Louis H. Haney, A Congressional History of Railways (1908), 1:111. See also Joseph Carrington Cabell, Notes Relative to the Route, Cost and Bearing of a Railway from Covington to the Head of Steamboat Navigation on the Kanawha River . . . (Addressed to Walter Gwynn, Chief Engineer, February 10, 1851.)
Report of the Engineers, on the Reconnaissance and surveys, made in reference to the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road (Baltimore: Printed by W. Wooddy, 1828). William Howard, C.E., Stephen Harrison Long, Jonathan Knight, William Gibbs McNeill, Joshua Barney, and Isaac R. Trimble were the surveyors. Joshua Barney's "Map of the Country Embracing the Various Routes Surveyed for the Balt. & Ohio Rail Road by Order of the Board of Engineers" (Baltimore, 1828?, scale ca. 1:193,000, 27 x 61 cm.) was prepared to accompany the report. Slason Thompson, A Short History of American Railways (Chicago: Bureau of Railway News and Statistics, 1925), p. 154. Louis H. Haney, A Congressional History of Railways, 2 vols. (Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1908-10; reprint ed., New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1968), 1:234.
Memorial of Asa Whitney . . . Praying a Grant of Land, to Enable Him to Construct a Railroad from Lake Michigan to the Pacific Ocean (28^th Congress, 2^nd sess., Senate Doc. 69, Serial 451, Jan. 28, 1845). Carl I. Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West, 5 v. (San Francisco: Institute of Historical Cartography, 1957-63), 2:187. John F. Stover, American Railroads (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961), p. 53. Gouverneur K. Warren, Memoir to Accompany the Map of the Territory of the United States from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, Giving a Brief Account of Each of the Exploring Expeditions Since A.D. 1800, with a Detailed Description of the Method Adopted in Compiling the General Map (Washington: U.S. Congress, Senate, 1859), p. 78.
"Single Rail Railway," [With lithograph plate by Pendleton. Boston, April 30, 1827] No. t.p.; date from end of article. David Woodward, The All-American Map (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977), pp. 26-36. Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean 1853-1856 (Washington, 1855-59). Published in a quarto set of thirteen volumes and commonly known as the "Pacific Railroad Surveys," it contains narratives of the explorations and accompanying maps of the surveyed routes.
Warren, Memoir, pp. 66-82. Alfred Runte, "Pragmatic Alliance, Western Railroads and the National Parks," National Parks 48 (April 1974):14. Haney, History of Railways, 2:13. George Woolworth Colton, A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Quartermaster George Colton (Philadelphia: Printed for private circulation, by John Milton Colton, 1912), p. 273. Henry Varnum Poor, History of the Railroads and Canals of the United States of America (New York: John H. Schulz & Co., 1860), p. [vi]. Rand McNally and Co., [Untitled booklet distributed to customers by the company, circa 1879].
Rand McNally and Company, Railway Guide the Travelers' Hand Book, (Chicago, 1873), p. xvii, and "A Tradition is Born . . . Rand McNally's First Maps," Ranally World (December 1962), p. 8. Ranally World (February to June 1956) and Andrew McNally III, The World of Rand McNally (New York: Newcomen Society of North America, 1956). Rand McNally and Co., [Untitled booklet distributed to customers by the company, circa 1879].

Wheeling Ohio County Library/and The Wheeling Room/ Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia/West Virginia Division of Culture and History/Goggle Earth license/ Cass Senic Railroad State park Cass WV/Toy and Train Museum Elm Grove West Virginia/US.Route 40.net/Historical Societys of West Virginia/Ohio/Minn/PA/ City of New York Public Library/ New York Times News Paper/ References to the Day by day of the Lincoln Funeral train The Lincoln Funeral Train: The Final Journey and National Funeral for Abraham Lincoln by Scott D. Trostel Amazon books.Lincoln, Memorandum concerning his probable failure of re-election, August 23, 1864. Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 7, p. 514, (1953).

B&O railroad station in Wheeling from The Wheeling Room and pictures taken from Dan Wheeler

This site is a educational site all materials are free to use but subject to copyrights as stated therein. Most materials from the Civil War are beyond the copyright registration time law's and have become Public domain. Outside Link http://www.nps.gov/archive/gosp/research/student_index.html / National Park Service/Pictures of Civil War from the National Archieves Black, Robert C., The Railroads of the Confederacy, University of North Carolina Press, originally 1952. Browne, Gary L., "Baltimore & Ohio Railroad", Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History, Heidler, David S., and Heidler, Jeanne T., eds., W. W. Norton & Company, 2000, ISBN 0-393-04758-X. Candenquist, Arthur, Confederates Gather Steam, historical field tours through the Civil War Education Association Stover, John F., History of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Purdue University Press, 1987, ISBN 1-55753-066-1 Weber, Thomas, The Northern Railroads in the Civil War, 1861-1865, Indiana University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-253-21321-5 Ohio County Public Library/Wheeling Room Civil War Pictures public domain Library of Congress S

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