Thank you for the offer. I will be away from my computers...one is up in a minimal way. without scanner and printer and my software pertaining to genealogy. I am in Georgia..since '71. I am going to visit my sons and cousins in the Tampa FL area soon. At the end of August, a new grandchild will arrive. I plan on helping them with the 2+ yrs
old gr-daughter. They started their family in their 30's & 40's.
I will share the train (plus others of Burlington) pix that I have when the machines and I are meshing. Bonnie

Hi. I grew up about 3 blocks away from the shops in West Burlington Iowa.The roundhouse was in this shop . My uncle worked there for 35 years and walked to work every day a few blocks. I believe the building is still there and it is Westinghouse Hill that is in West Burlington. The St. Marys Catholic church and grotto is right next door to the place. It is at the end of Spring Street and Hwy 34.I have a book about the RR in Burlington I could give you. I would have to locate it. Hope this helps. I'll see if I can remember any thing else.Linda

I have a bit of information about the rail yards from a West Burlington historical document forwarded to me by the Burlington Public Library but would be very interested in anything you might have. If you have a book that is not too large, I will scan it and return the book to you. I am slowly finding that West Burlington was at one time a major railroad manufacturing center.

My nephew used to work at Westinghouse so I assume that is close to the old yards.

Thanks for your reply and I look forward to learning more.

It may be of interest to you that the Burlington Northern shops have been very much in the Burlington news in the past year. Burlington Northern recently bought Santa Fe and early this year a large portion of jobs were eliminated at Burlington. The local paper just reported that more jobs are being moved to Topeka, Ks. If I remember correctly, there are less than 100 jobs left at W Burlington in the shops today.

I received a book that I bought on e-bay yesterday. It is about the company. The name is
GRANGER COUNTRY
A pictorial social history of the Burlington Railroad
Edited by Lloyd Lewis and Stanley Pargellis
The book has many pictures and there was another one listed on e-bay..do not know if it is still there.
I am still going through my collage of papers from my father who worked 22 yrs in West Burlington (quit in 1944) and will get back to you some time next year Gene. Bonnie

It is very sad to hear that. I spent my growing up years in Burlington and West Burlington and it will always be home to me. It is nice to share . Thanks Linda

I am chasing down my fathers side of the family in Burlinton Iowa. Supposedly my Dads father Bert Eads worked on the railroad around 1920 to 1932. The Family has lived in Burlington since right before the turn of the century. My Gr.Grandfathers name is Rollie Eads.He married Vivian M Mackey in 1913. They had several kids. Rollie had some brothers that live there or did. One of them is Harvey Eads. Harvey was married to May. They had two Daughters that I know of from 1880 census. 1: Dorthy Eads who was the oldest became a teacher there in Burlington.2 daughter was Virginia Eads. Thought maybe someone would know of this family & could shed some more light on the situation. I had searched for a long time for these relatives and are almost to a block in the wall again. All the help in the world is appreciated. Feel free to e-mail me @ eadsferret@yahoo.com. As I said thanks for any imfo.

Hi When I went to school 1950-60 there was Horace Mann Junior Hight School, Oak Street Junior High and Burlington Hight School you might try those places to try and locate the teacher . Also West Burlington is a town of its own but it only had 2 elementery schools at that time and one was a small Catholic school.I will check around and see what I can find out for you. You might also try the phone book for Eads in Burlington as a lot of Iowan folks stay put and maybe there is still family there.Later

Thank You Linda for the info.. I really appreciate the help. I am finding out that there are some friendly people out there that will still take time to help others . The Eads name can be a hard one to chase at times. But I have broke another link barrier thanks to a few of you . So I say God bless you all that help. May the luck be with you on your quests also.

The high school put out a book of all alumni that lists known addresses of all past students, you may find some addresses in it. I don't have the book but my sister in Oakville does.