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Bluell was a car repairer for the Omaha Railroad who lived at 699 Butternut (built in 1889).
Date: September, 2013
Photo by: Kimmy Tanaka
This file appears in: Omaha Railroad Shops
Omaha Railroad Shops
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…