AT@JE))1a d Program for the Pageant The Chicago Railroad Fair is presented by The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway System Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad—The Alton Route The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company Illinois Central Railroad The Boston and Maine Railroad Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad Company Burlington Lines Maine Central Railroad Company The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad The Monongahela Railway Company Chicago Great Western Railway New York Central System Chicago & Illinois Midland Railway Company Nickel Plate Road—The New York, Chicago And St. Louis :CC Ir=.11.11.: Cr 11,11,:,:iFicsia Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway Company—Monon Railroad Company Norfolk Southern Railway Company Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company Northern Pacific Railway Company Chicago And North Western Railway System Pennsylvania Railroad The Colorado & Wyoming Railway Company The Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway Company Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad The Pullman Company Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway Company Rock Island Lines Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway Company Soo Line Erie Railroad Spokane, Portland And Seattle Railway Company Grand Trunk Railway System The Texas Mexican Railway Company Great Northern Railway Company Union Pacific Railroad Green Bay & Western Lines Wabash Railroad Company OFFICERS President LENOX R. 1,0HR President, Museum of Science and Industry Vice-President Treasurer Secretary EW epics of America are as stirring as the story for years to come. Just a century ago this year, when R. L. WILLIAMS WAYNE A. JOHNSTON G. M. CAMPBELL Fof its railroads. In the unfolding at Chicago this little Chicago was but a muddy frontier outpost, a President, Chicago And President, Illinois Central Vice-Pres. and Exec. Representative, year of the centennial Railroad Fair the history handful of its citizens dared risk their reputations North Western Railway System Railroad The Baltimore and Ohio of the nation itself is to great degree reenacted in all and fortunes on a faith in the promising iron horse of Railroad Company its colorful glamor. the rails. The settling and development of the world's most At that time Chicago had little reason for opti- prosperous continent, the growth of agriculture, in- mism, Surrounding swamps limited its horizon. Plank DIRECTORS dustry and the sciences beyond man's widest imagina- roads built out to the plains offered little hope of G. F. ASHBY, President J. W. DAVIN, President W. 1tIcCARTHY, President tion, the conquest of one new peak after another in greatly expanding commerce. Many of the townsfolk, Union Pacific Railroad Nickel Plate Road—The New York, Denver and Rio Granule Western human opportunity, practically all the basic factors as a consequence, were genuinely pessimistic over the ARTHUR K. ATKINSON, President Chicago And St. Louis Railroad in the country's meteoric economy, are brought to- chances for the new railroad's success. But when on Wabash Railroad Company Railroad Company H. E. McGEE, President gether in one convincing presentation. No industry October 25, 1848, Chicago's first steam railroad loco- S. A. DOBBS, Vice-President JOHN W. BARRIGER, President Green Bay & Western Lines has ever gone to such extremes in demonstration of motive—the tiny Pioneer of the new Galena and Chi- Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad J. L. McKEE, Vice-President their vital part in the daily life of America as the cago Union Railroad—successfully puffed its way five Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville —The Alton Route Railway Company—Monon. New York Central System railroads in this mile-long exposition on the shores of miles west and back, a new ray of hope was en- J. D. FARRINGTON, President F. L. SCHRADER, President Lake Michigan. kindled. T. D. BEVEN, President Rock Island Lines Elgin, Joliet and Chicago & Illinois Midland Railway In its acres of exhibits the Railroad Fair offers There was quick justification for the new-found Eastern Railway Company P. E. FEUCHT, ire-President Company hours of fascinating enjoyment, intriguing pageantry, buoyancy. Ever westward the new railroad pressed. Pennsylvania Railroad R. J. BOWMAN, President C. A. SKOG, Vice-Pres. and Cen. Mgr. invaluable education. Taken back to that early day Then shortly, new roads and new locomotives, pene- E. S. FRENCH, President The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Grand Trunk Railway System when an unbelieving America looked askance at the trating ever deeper into the untracked wilderness. The Boston and Maine Railroad Company A. SYVERSON, first wood-burning locomotive, you will move rapidly On the heels of railroading success came steady CHARLES J. GRAHAM, President ice-President and General Manager forward to the mammoth streamliners that beckon the development of vast mid-continent farming territory, JOHN M. BUDD, President The Pittsburgh & West Virginia Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Lake Superior & Ishpeming way into our own tomorrow. You will witness what or bountiful logging regions in the northwest, rich oil Railway Company Railroad Company rail transportation has meant in the commercial prog- fields in the southwest, and sprawling industrial areas RALPH BUDD, President F. G. GURLEY, President P. II. VAN IIOVEN, in the great Far West. Burlington Lines President ress of the East, the agrarian growth of the South and The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Chicago. starting point of this tremendous western Railway System Midwest, the more recent fulfillment of our destiny C. H. BUFORD, President Railway Company beyond the Rockies. movement, kept pace in its growth. From the little Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and C. R. HARDING, President R. L. WILLIAMS, President Each exhibit will prove an exciting and entirely lakeside city in time branched a growing network of Pacific Railroad Company The Pullman Company Chicago And North Western Railway different chapter in a stirring melodrama. While one rails. In its role as an important rail hub the muddy H. W. BURTNESS, President WAYNE A. JOHNSTON. President System railroad in truly duplicated surroundings will take frontier outpost of 1848 soon was definitely on its Illinois Central Railroad Chicago Great Western Railway WARD WIRE, Vice-President you into the primitive Indian country it serves, anoth- way to become the massive metropolitan area we G. M. CAMPBELL, Vice-Pres. D. L. KEISER, President The Colorado & Wyoming Railway er will carry you away to the playgrounds of Florida know today as the greatest transportation center in all and Exec. Representative The Texas Mexican Railway Company Company or the romantic old French Quarter of New Orleans. creation. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad LENOX R. LOI-IR, President R. E. WOODRUFF, President Chicago in 1948 is the appropriate place and occa- This year's Railroad Fair, celebrating the inspiring Company Museum of Science and Industry Erie Railroad sion for such a spectacle. Historically it is the most story of the American miracle on rails, commemor- commemorative setting that railroading will know ates one of the nation's most important centennials. STAFF DANIEL M. MacMASTER, Executive Officer CLYDE W. EDMONDSON, Sup't of Operations PAUL M. MASSMANN, Director of Exhibits M. P. BLACK, Field Engineer MILTON P. KERR, Financial Officer DOYLE S. MORRIS, Legal Counsel JAMES A. DOUGHERTY, Ass't Coordinator of Publicity FREDERICK J. ASHLEY, Coordinator of Publicity BREWSTER STICKNEY, Ass't to Coordinator of Publicity JOHN A. REILLY, Director of Special Events CARL DUDE, Ass't to Financial Officer TRAVOIS EARLY CART HORSEBACK RIDER STANHOPE 18TH CENTURY COACH Prologue THE VOYAGEURS-1673 Chicago Today America is a nation on wheels . wheels that have rolled through wilderness and wasteland, leaving Railroad Fair in their tracks cities by the thousands, towns by the tens of thousands. Not too many years ago, the story was "te6testea- so vastly different. The Indian's travel over rough trails and waterways was slow and laborious. The canoe, the pirogue, the horse and crude travois were all he knew. Such were the circumstances in which Father Marquette "Wheels a-Rolling! and Joliet found the Indians when the French voyageurs reached the shore of Lake Michigan in 1673. With the Produced by LENOX R. LIMB coming of the white man, a new era was dawning. The Assisted by II. M. MarMaster contest across the continent was on. A Pageant Play - With Music by III NGERF01111 Scene 1 nine:led by Techairak IiiruEi inn by 111:1,EN TIEKEN GERAGHTY ARTHUR M 1% BERRY THE NATIONAL ROAD-1815 The frontier was falling back! No longer was the white Mnsir.n1 Ilirectur - ISAAC VAN GIII1VE man content with paths that wound thru wilderness and Assistant Technical Ilirectur —Earl J. 'kiwi streams that boiled angrily around a frail canoe. Here, THE NATIONAL ROAD now, was the great National Road—traversed by young Washington, the surveyor, and completed during Presi- dent Jefferson's term in office. Here was a new artery for the growing nation, pumping the power of the pioneer spirit westward, westward from the Potomac to the Mississippi! Scene 2 THE IRON HORSE-1829.36 To conquer greater distances, man reinforces his of- fensive with steel and propels his transport with steam. In England George Stephenson creates his gallant Rocket, first practical steam railroad locomotive. Then comes The Stourbridge Lion, operating in this country. And quickly following—the Best Friend of Charleston, the Torn Thumb, the DeWitt Clinton, the John Bull, the Atlantic, the Lafayette. True, an old gray mare outruns Peter Cooper's Torn Thumb. But Dobbin soon loses pace as America's first railways begin building dynamic new THE ATLANTIC ENGINE WITH COACHES ROCKET cities. • ) J111111111Hg. ir A •17 r 11.•. • STOURBRIDGE LION JOHN BULL BEST FRIEND OF CHARLESTON DE WITT CLINTON TOM THUMB LAFAYETTE HARVEY HOUSE PONY EXPRESS CONESTOGA WAGON WELLS FARGO STAGE COACH Scene 3 Scene 6 THE DRIVEN GOLDEN MAY 10 CHICAGO-1848 SPANNING A CONTINENT-1863 SPIKE 186c Hub-deep in swamp mud, trade and transport churns Over the Sierras from Sacramento, construction gangs into the infant town of Chicago.