{"id":16301,"date":"2026-06-11T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=16301"},"modified":"2026-06-02T01:43:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T06:43:33","slug":"iowa-transportation-history-presentations-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/06\/iowa-transportation-history-presentations-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa transportation history presentations, part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote 2200 words about five presentations in Ames on May 1. Well, technically, I wrote whatever percentage of those words are not from quoted material. <a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/early-iowa-transportation-history-87e\">Here&#8217;s the second part<\/a>, and the story links to a full presentation about &#8220;streamliner&#8221; midcentury train engine design.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/early-iowa-transportation-history-87e\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16291\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/substack_transportationhistory2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/substack_transportationhistory2.jpg 600w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/substack_transportationhistory2-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/substack_transportationhistory2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote 2200 words about five presentations in Ames on May 1. Well, technically, I wrote whatever percentage of those words are not from quoted material. Here&#8217;s the second part, and the story links to a full presentation about &#8220;streamliner&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/06\/iowa-transportation-history-presentations-part-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16302,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16301\/revisions\/16302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}