Transportation: Around Mokena Long Ago and Today

Let’s Travel! But how? With TRANSPORTATION! http://www.lapl.org/virgal/travel/travel-6.html But how? With TRANSPORTATION!

Road Maps 1838 2010 Click on links to zoom in for a close up view Mokena now Mokena would eventually be here near Lockport 1838 2010 http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~988~70103 http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl type in Mokena, IL Click on links to zoom in for a close up view

So how did we travel long ago? How do we travel today?

Boats Canal Boats 1860 Canal Boats 2010 www.memory.loc.gov query: canal boat , number 49 http://www.city-data.com/forum/augusta-area/718911-plant-vogtle-could-augusta-get-inland-2.html

Watch the canal boats from long ago… Click on picture to watch   http://memory.loc.gov/mbrs/edmp/4059s1.mov

Watch the canal boats today… Click on picture to watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMg0OfJlGYo

We can SING about canal boats! Let’s listen, click on speaker http://www.eriecanalsong.com/music/BillyMurray-1912-LowBridgeEverybodyDown.mp3 Click on link to see the music http://eriecanalsong.com/sheetmusic/LowBridgeEverybodyDown.pdf

Railroads Today’s Engine in Mokena Steam Engines in Mokena http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=104758&nseq=3 http://www.mokenagallery.com/History/Historic-B/9778170_NeMiZ#663043809_oY2c3-A-LB

Let’s watch a train from long ago… Click on pictures to watch http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/papr:@FILREQ(@field(SUBJ+@od1(Railroad+trains--California--Fingal+))+@FIELD(COLLID+edison)) http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/papr:@FILREQ(@field(SUBJ+@od1(Railroad+trains--California--Santa+Monica+))+@FIELD(COLLID+edison))

Let’s watch a train from today… Click on picture to watch http://www.trainvideoclips.info/

When do we leave? Today 2010 Long ago 1867 Rock Island Line Schedule Train # 600 400 402 602 404 604 406 606 408 608 410 610 AM/PM AM Bikes Per Train Joliet – 5:02 5:29 5:50 6:10 6:29 6:48 New Lenox 5:12 5:39 6:00 6:20 6:39 6:58 Mokena 5:18 5:45 6:06 6:26 6:45 7:04 Hickory Creek 5:23 6:11 6:31 6:50 7:09 Tinley Park - 80th Ave. 5:28 5:55 6:16 6:36 6:55 7:14 Tinley Park 5:32 5:59 6:40 6:59 7:18 Oak Forest 5:37 6:04 6:46 7:05 7:24 Midlothian 5:41 6:08 6:30 7:28 Robbins 5:44 6:33 6:53 7:12 Blue Island - Vermont St. 5:20 5:48 6:15 6:05 6:37 6:57 7:17 7:34 Prairie St. 5:22 6:07 6:35 6:52 7:06 123rd St. 5:24 6:09 6:54 7:08 7:26 119th Street 5:26 6:56 7:10 Morgan Park - 115th Street 6:13 6:41 7:30 Morgan Park - 111th Street 5:30 6:43 7:00 7:32 Beverly Hills - 107th Street 6:17 7:02 7:16 Beverly Hills - 103rd Street 5:34 7:19 7:37 Beverly Hills - 99th Street 5:36 6:22 7:07 7:21 7:39 Beverly Hills - 95th Street 5:38 6:24 7:23 7:41 Beverly Hills - 91st Street 5:40 7:11 7:25 7:43 Brainerd 5:42 6:28 7:13 7:27 7:45 103rd St. - Washington Hts. 5:53 7:03 95th St. - Longwood 5:56 6:23 Gresham 7:48 Chicago LaSalle Station 6:42 7:35 7:44 7:49 8:02 8:07 Long ago 1867 http://memory.loc.gov query: train ticket, item 2 http://metrarail.com/metra/en/home/maps_schedules/metra_system_map/ri/schedule.full.html

Automobiles 1955 1905 2010 http://www.loti.com/cars3.html http://www.mokenagallery.com/History/Historic-B/9778170_NeMiZ#663043813_jverP-A-LB 2010 http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2008_08_31_archive.html

Buying a new car long ago and today… http://www.fordvehicles.com/cars/fusion/ http://memory.loc.gov query: automobile advertising, item 7

Watch the cars go… Click on picture to watch Click link below to watch http://motortrend.automotive.com/video/6202127/of-the-year-the-finalists-2008-motor-trend-car-of-the-year-video/index.html http://memory.loc.gov/mbrs/lcmp002/m2b46029.mov

Airplanes 2010 1909 http://www.astr.ua.edu/keel/techniques/spacetbl.html http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bl_wright_brothers.htm

Can it fly. Do you think planes from long ago were safe Can it fly? Do you think planes from long ago were safe? Watch this one… Click on link below to watch http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3398 http://invention.psychology.msstate.edu/moviesandphotos/movies/EuroFlyby.mov

Are the planes of today safe? Watch and find out. Click on link below to watch http://www.airlinetv.net/view_video.php?viewkey=c5df69a976e893f4d554&page=1&viewtype=&category=ch

So where shall we travel? http://vanessaleighsblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/disney-world.jpg http://www.intobotswana.com/safari/design_safari.jpg http://www.h-e-r-a.org/Conferences/2009%20Chicago/chicago_skyline2.jpg http://www.parbeszed.com/img/upload/200707/rocky_mountains.jpg

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