[DOC] [TLE] Ask Me A Trivia Question -- 2 -- - Discussion on Topix [PAR] Apr 11, 2010 ... To make way for a railroad, Missouri's Cape Girardeau on this river was blasted 
out of existence ... The entire Island of Malta was awarded the George Cross in 
1942 for holding out against many months of Axis attacks. [DOC] [TLE] Blog: Cape Girardeau's most obscure historic landmark | Southeast ... [PAR] Mar 24, 2010 ... The first train on his Cape Girardeau & Chester Railroad ran between Cape and 
Jackson on Nov. ... Investigators for Missouri's Railroad & Warehouse 
Department ... bent and warped rails, and the track utterly out of line and surface. 
... would have provided an alternate route during frequent river floods. [DOC] [TLE] Blog: St. Louis versus Chicago (Part 1) | Southeast Missourian ... [PAR] Jul 20, 2011 ... Since the mid-1800s, both cities have been locked in an intricate chess game, ... 
Not that the early Missouri railroads were all that great. ... Historically, thanks to 
the Mississippi River, St. Louis merchants traded ... Indeed, it would have made 
greater financial sense to construct a railroad hub out of St. Louis,... [DOC] [TLE] Cape Girardeau County, Missouri Place Names, 1928-1945 | The ... [PAR] Description: A rural school in the southern part of Cape Girardeau Township, ... 
town was laid out in 1869 by Thomas Allen, president of the Iron Mountain 
Railroad, .... The only suggested solution to the name is that a brush arbor 
existed there .... Description: A village on Whitewater River, eight miles southwest 
of Jackson in... [DOC] [TLE] Missouri Pacific Railroad - Missouri Pacific Historical Society [PAR] Dedicated to preserving the rich history of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, the ... 
Another disaster occurred when fire, which broke out on a river steamboat, ... The 
train to make that trip was pulled by a locomotive made in the new St. .... He had 
entered service of the Missouri Pacific as a district attorney at Cape Girardeau, 
Mo.,... [DOC] [TLE] Neely's LandingThe Rise and Fall of a Mississippi River Town ... [PAR] After the Frisco Railroad went through the town in 1904, the town's ... The Cape 
County Recorder's Office and the Missouri State Archives have some records ... 
The first record of Jacob H. Neely receiving land in Cape Girardeau County was 
.... freight steamer Stonewall, passed Neely's Landing on her way to New Orleans
. [DOC] [TLE] Tragedy at Neely's Landing - Southeast Missouri State University ... [PAR] The sidewheel steamboat Stonewall plied its way down the slow-rolling river 
toward ... Railroad had removed the Tea Table, since the company needed to 
make tracks ... At Grand Tower, too, there was a railway; and another at Cape 
Girardeau. ... which stands up out of the water on the Missouri side of the rivera 
piece of... [DOC] [TLE] Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority: The Making of a ... [PAR] May 12, 2007 ... The Board of Commissioners of the Southeast Missouri Regional ... U. S. Dept of 
Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration ..... Mississippi River in Scott and 
Cape Girardeau Counties. .... would mean construction of the Port could be under 
way this year. ... sulfate was off-loaded from barge to truck. [DOC] [TLE] IV - City of Cape Girardeau [PAR] In Cape Girardeau there have been a number of surveys which have identified ... 
This map omits the 1983 survey since it is now out of date, and was not .... by the 
SHPO, and many have been demolished to make way for the new highway. .... 
the Missouri Historic Bridge Inventory had assessed the 1928 Mississippi River... [DOC] [TLE] Major Bridge Removal Specials - Missouri Department of ... [PAR] JOB SPECIAL PROVISIONS (BRIDGE) Cape Girardeau County ... have been 
completely removed from the river in accordance with Sec 216 for removal of ... 
The contractor shall become acquainted with the right-of-way limits, wetland 
limits and ... levees, facilities of the railroad or other features as a result of the 
contractor's... [DOC] [TLE] Corps Begins Mississippi River Rock Removal - Farm Progress [PAR] Jan 1, 2013 ... Plan is to

Question: To make way for a railroad, Missouri's Cape Girardeau on this river was blasted out of existence
Answer: Mississippi River