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Community Galleries: Transportation Innovations - Trains

This Collection was put together for Jayden, a 4th grade student at Explorer Elementary School in Kentwood Michigan as part of a research project on innovation. Jayden was looking to the GRPM to gather information and materials for the essential question: How have innovations changed the way that humans travel? Analyzing these items from the GRPM Collections helped Jayden with research and project development. Jayden was looking to find what innovations have had the greatest impact on transportation over time. Jayden was particularly interested in trains, so that's what we focused this Collection on. The GRPM staff also directed Jayden to explore the A is for Auto Virtual Discovery Kit and the  Virtual Exhibit Tour of The Streets of Old Grand Rapids to learn more about the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad that Grand Rapids was connected to in 1870.

Postcard, Photograph of Lowell Railway
Stereoview, Lumbermen and Steam Engine
Photograph, Union Station on Ionia, Grand Rapids Michigan
Photograph, Union Station
Photograph, Union Depot
Photograph, Train Yard
Photograph, train wreck
Photograph, Train Off Tracks
Photograph, Train Wreck
Photograph, Train Tracks Over Water
Photograph, Train In Snow
Photograph, Train Engine
16 more
Photograph, Pennsylvania Railroad, Engine #8983, Pulling Cargo Of Leonard Refrigerators
Photograph, New York Central Railroad Pulled By Engine #8754
Photograph, New York Central Railroad, Engine #2029
Photograph, Crash Scene After Collision Between Auto and #113 Interurban Grand Rapids/Jenison Train
Photograph, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, Engine #5758, and Unknown Railway (Possibly Atchison, Topkea and Santa Fe Railway), Engine #3752
Amtrak Service Records
Train Engine Model
Marx Diesel Type Electric Train Set
Stereoview, Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad Steam Locomotive
Timetable, Pere Marquette
Stereoview, Logging Train Near Stanton, Michigan
Train Cars (29)
Photograph, Passenger Train
Photograph, Train
Photograph, Tree Tanglefoot Being Loaded Onto A Boxcar
Road Map, Kent County, 1928
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