William Branch & Company was engaged in surveying and construction on the Lake Superior & Mississippi Railroad from 1865 to 1869.
Mississippi Railroad Blues' is another instrumental track, and the final song on the album.
When the Lake Superior & Mississippi Railroad was built, people could move across the country in days instead of months.
The Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad went through in 1852, but the village remained mostly rural.
In 1870, the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad was completed in this region.
The Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad is the name for two different railroads in Minnesota.
McClellan had just been made president of the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad, when he was called back to duty-and glory.
These men had calculated that the new Chicago and Mississippi Railroad would miss Pontiac and would have to cross the Vermilion River at their location.
September 8 - Byron Kilbourn, president of the Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad 1849-1852 (d. 1870).
He was president of the Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad, which became part of the Milwaukee Road.