CBS Sports adds up the BCS finishes by conference from the past five years based on 2014 conference memberships and “Iowa State is the only [Big 12] member without a Top 25 BCS finish since 2007.” However, that status is due to Texas A&M storming off in a huff going to the SEC. Kansas may be back to doormat status, but at least they have 2007.
To add insult to injury, the auto-formatted link in that sentence on the original page is tagged for the Iowa Hawkeyes. (Oregon State’s link works.)
Photos taken in the past year have been added to IA 38, 186, 234, 273, and 359. The US 18 page now has the plaque that stands where the old suspension bridge crossed the Mississippi River. (Somehow I never added that earlier.)
Informative articles from the Cedar Rapids Gazette about the importance of the railroads in Iowa’s history and the network “representing arms of urban economic imperialism of Chicago”.
Iowa’s past, future converge with railroads
Union Station was hub of downtown Cedar Rapids
I saw that one right after a ZKN with a “for sale” in the windshield. (Then why did they get the plate?)
December 18, 2006
Thunderstorms in Wapello County knocked down the statue on the courthouse in Ottumwa. The rain came the same week that the county was declared to be in a moderate drought.
That reminds me, I still have a school district directory to update…
It’s not my best courthouse picture, but it’s a clear winter sunset in Winterset. January 10, 2012.
KCAU update from a week ago. I know it’s old, but there’s a video showing work on the volleyball interchange. The story is about ramps closing at I-29/US 20.
Slightly more recent is this Sioux City Journal story from the 12th about future work in Woodbury County.
Plans for four-laning US 63 south of Ottumwa had made it to the design stage, but construction or preparation for construction is not in the new five-year program.
The Ottumwa-to-Kirksville segment will remain two lanes for the foreseeable future.
