1. Transportation:
Around Mokena
Long Ago
and
Today

2. Let’s Travel! But how? With TRANSPORTATION!
But how? With TRANSPORTATION!

3. Road Maps 1838 2010 Click on links to zoom in for a close up view
Mokena
now
Mokena would eventually
be here near Lockport
type in Mokena, IL
Click on links to zoom in for a close up view

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

5. Boats Canal Boats 1860 Canal Boats 2010
query: canal boat , number 49

6. Watch the canal boats from long ago…
Click on picture to watch

7. Watch the canal boats today…
Click on picture to watch

8. We can SING about canal boats!
Let’s listen, click on speaker
Click on link to see the music

9. Railroads Today’s Engine in Mokena Steam Engines in Mokena

10. Let’s watch a train from long ago…
Click on pictures to watch

11. Let’s watch a train from today…
Click on picture to watch

12. 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
query: train ticket, item 2

13. Automobiles 1955 1905 2010 http://www.loti.com/cars3.html
2010

14. Buying a new car long ago and today…
query: automobile advertising, item 7

15. Watch the cars go… Click on picture to watch Click link below to watch

16. Airplanes
2010
1909

17. 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…
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18. Are the planes of today safe? Watch and find out.
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19. So where shall we travel?

20. Bibliography (in order by slide)1. 2.
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query: automobile advertising, item 7
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