Letter from Omaha Railway Company President

ID: 886
This file appears in: Omaha Railroad Shops
Letter from Omaha Railway Company President

From the President of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Company "forbidding the future employment of females in any capacity in all Departments."

Date: June 30th, 1898

Image credit: Dave Riehle, personal collection

This file appears in: Omaha Railroad Shops

By Dave Riehle
Constructed beginning in the late 1800’s, the railroad shops of the Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway (the “Omaha”) at Randolph and Toronto Streets employed nearly 1,000 workers for the first half of the 20th century. The West End…