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    Iowa. A mile-long bridge was built over the valley of the Little Sioux River at Sioux Rapids, Iowa.[1] Its sister railroad, the Iowa Central Railway began...
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  • Central Iowa Railway (formally named the Central Iowa Transportation Cooperative) was a 63-mile (101-km) freight railroad that operated during 1974 from...
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    Railroad. The Central Iowa Railway followed, which became the Iowa Central Railway in 1888 and was absorbed by the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway in 1901...
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  • S. state of Iowa. Boone and Scenic Valley Railroad (BSVY) BNSF Railway (BNSF) Burlington Junction Railway (BJRY) Canadian National Railway (CN) through...
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    Canadian National Railway acquired control of the IC in 1998, and absorbed its operations the following year. The Illinois Central Railroad maintains...
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    The Iowa Northern Railway (reporting mark IANR) is a Class III shortline railroad operating in the U.S. state of Iowa. The origin of the Iowa Northern...
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  • List of Class I railroads (category United States railway-related lists)
    International and Great Northern Railway International Railway of Maine Iowa Central Railway Kanawha and Michigan Railway Kansas City, Mexico and Orient...
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    miles (64 km) of yard trackage in four east central Iowa counties. The Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway employs 90 individuals. 100,000 car loads of...
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    Iowa (/ˈaɪ.əwə/ EYE-ə-wə, Lakota: Ayúȟwa) is a landlocked state in the upper Midwestern region of the United States. It borders the Mississippi River to...
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    the site of a battle in 1882 between the Iowa Central Railway and the narrow-gauge Burlington and Western Railway for locations of bridges across the Skunk...
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    to Oskaloosa, Iowa. The line was sold to the Central Iowa Railway as soon as it was built, and that line became the Iowa Central Railway a few years later...
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    Burlington and Western, a narrow gauge railroad and its competitor, the Iowa Central Railway built parallel tracks toward Oskaloosa. The Burlington and Western...
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    Canadian National Railway (CN) through the Grand Trunk Corporation. Operationally, the Chicago Central & Pacific is designated as the Iowa Zone of CN's Southern...
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    afflicted by the Cholera. In 1882, the Iowa Central Railway and the narrow-gauge Burlington and Western Railway battled for right-of-way as they built...
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  • The Iowa Interstate Railroad (reporting mark IAIS) is a Class II regional railroad operating in the central United States. The railroad is owned by Railroad...
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    and Western Railway a narrow gauge line, and its competitor, the Iowa Central Railway, built competing east–west lines through the area. These crossed...
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    operated in the mid-central United States. It served a large area, including track in the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, and Missouri...
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  • Iowa City Railway was a short-lived railroad that leased several lines in southeastern Iowa in 1916 from the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway...
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  • Central Railway or Central Railroad can refer to the following: Central East African Railways, in Malawi Central South African Railways, in South Africa...
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  • junction of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway and the Iowa Central Railway, in Sections 34 and 35 of Aetna Township (now Etna Township). The...
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  • (CIR) Canadian National Railway (CN) through subsidiaries Chicago Central and Pacific Railroad (CC), Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway (EJE), Grand Trunk Western...
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    Harrington designed a vertical lift bridge (since demolished) for the Iowa Central Railway over the Mississippi River at Keithsburg, Illinois, in 1909. The...
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    part of the U.S. state of Iowa. The population was 85,797 in the 2020 census, making it the fourth-most populous city in Iowa. The bulk of the city is...
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  • office which opened on July 2, 1883. Killduff was once located on the Iowa Central Railway. Killduff's population was 69 in 1902, and 85 in 1925. In 1912, Killduff...
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    Mason City is a city and the county seat of Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, United States. The population was 27,338 in the 2020 census, a decline from 29,172...
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  • List of U.S. Class II railroads (category United States railway-related lists)
    Western Railway (EVWR) Florida East Coast Railway (FEC) Great Lakes Central Railroad (GLC) Indiana Rail Road (INRD) Iowa Interstate Railroad (IAIS) Kansas &...
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    continues to operate independently. Iowa Northern Railway In 2023, CN acquired the Iowa Northern Railway, but the transaction is awaiting approval by the...
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  • receiver for the Long Island Traction Company and president of the Iowa Central Railway. He worked in Wall Street for sixty-three years. At the age of 22...
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    A transcontinental railroad or transcontinental railway is contiguous railroad trackage, that crosses a continental land mass and has terminals at different...
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    Western Trail is a rail trail in the Des Moines metropolitan area south-central Iowa, United States. There is also the Great Western Trail in Illinois, which...
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