Transportation: Around Mokena Long Ago and Today

1. Transportation: Around Mokena Long Ago and Today

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

3. Road Maps Mokena now Mokena would eventually be here near Lockport 1838 2010 http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~988~70103http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl 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 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

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

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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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))

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

12. When do we leave? Today 2010 Rock Island Line Schedule 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

13. Automobiles 1955 1905 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

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

15. 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

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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. Bibliography (in order by slide) • 1. http://www.lapl.org/virgal/travel/travel-6.html • 2. http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~988~70103 • 3. http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl query Mokena, IL • 4. www.memory.loc.gov query: canal boat , number 49 • 5. http://www.city-data.com/forum/augusta-area/718911-plant-vogtle-could-augusta-get-inland-2.html • 6. http://memory.loc.gov/mbrs/edmp/4059s1.mov • 7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMg0OfJlGYo • 8. http://eriecanalsong.com/sheetmusic/LowBridgeEverybodyDown.pdf • 9. http://www.eriecanalsong.com/music/BillyMurray-1912-LowBridgeEverybodyDown.mp3 • 10. http://www.mokenagallery.com/History/Historic-B/9778170_NeMiZ#663043809_oY2c3-A-LB • 11.http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=104758&nseq=3 • 12. http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/papr:@FILREQ(@field(SUBJ+@od1(Railroad+trains--California--Fingal+))+@FIELD(COLLID+edison)) • 13. http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/papr:@FILREQ(@field(SUBJ+@od1(Railroad+trains--California--Santa+Monica+))+@FIELD(COLLID+edison)) • 14. http://www.trainvideoclips.info/ • 15. http://memory.loc.gov query: train ticket, item 2 • 16. http://metrarail.com/metra/en/home/maps_schedules/metra_system_map/ri/schedule.full.html • 17. http://www.mokenagallery.com/History/Historic-B/9778170_NeMiZ#663043813_jverP-A-LB • 18. http://www.loti.com/cars3.html • 19. http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2008_08_31_archive.html • 20. http://memory.loc.gov query: automobile advertising, item 7 • 21. http://www.fordvehicles.com/cars/fusion/ • 22 http://memory.loc.gov/mbrs/lcmp002/m2b46029.mov • 23. http://motortrend.automotive.com/video/6202127/of-the-year-the-finalists-2008-motor-trend-car-of-the-year-video/index.html • 24. http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bl_wright_brothers.htm • 25. http://www.astr.ua.edu/keel/techniques/spacetbl.html • 26. http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3398 • 27. http://invention.psychology.msstate.edu/moviesandphotos/movies/EuroFlyby.mov • 28. http://www.airlinetv.net/view_video.php?viewkey=c5df69a976e893f4d554&page=1&viewtype=&category=ch • 29. http://vanessaleighsblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/disney-world.jpg • 30. http://www.parbeszed.com/img/upload/200707/rocky_mountains.jpg • 31. http://www.intobotswana.com/safari/design_safari.jpg • 32. http://www.h-e-r-a.org/Conferences/2009%20Chicago/chicago_skyline2.jpg