Lt. Governor Judge will highlight infrastructure investment and job creation when the “Moving Iowa Forward” tour comes to Sioux City. The Lt. Governor will be highlighting the efforts to restore the Milwaukee Railroad Shops Historic District, which received more than $266,000 in I-JOBS funds. The event is open to the public.
Lt. Governor Judge's presentation will be on Monday, March 8, 2010 at 11:15 a.m. at the Dorothy Pecaut Nature Center.
Due to the heavy snow melt run off, high snow piles and the forecasted inclement weather causing low-level flooding and water pooling, we will be unable to host the event at the Milwaukee Railroad Shops Historic District.
The IJOBS funding will finance the construction of a new exhibit center and the rehabilitation of the machine shop building at the Milwaukee Railroad Shops Historic District. The new exhibit center will house displays on civil engineering and the large HO scale Nebraska Central Railroad model railroad exhibit. The machine shop building is the new home for the Corliss stationary steam engine salvaged from the KD Station – Swift Plant by volunteers of the Siouxland Historical Railroad Association. The Corliss engine will help educate visitors on the industrial applications of steam technology in the later 19th and early 20th Centuries.
A periodic look at the progress and events taking place at the Milwaukee Railroad Shops in Sioux City, Iowa
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