Traveling to Omaha

MAC is here! We are looking forward to welcoming you to Omaha. However you have chosen to travel, we hope you travel safely.

By plane?

Home movies of a flight out of Fort Crook (Omaha), Nebraska, c.1928, by Omaha physician William Melcher, shows preparation for takeoff and aerial views.

By train?

Earliest existing film footage of a Nebraska scene, 1900, allows you to ride along with a Union Pacific locomotive as it travels via the Missouri River Bridge from Iowa into the Union Station railyard in Omaha. The film was made for the American Biograph film studios.

Thanks to Paul Eisloeffel, Curator of Audiovisual Collections at the Nebraska State Historical Society for these clips and the information. See y’all soon!

-Post by Lori Schwartz, University of Nebraska at Omaha