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A train depot was built at Britt in 1870, with tracks running from east to west through the town. [3] The first train line running through the town was the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul line, followed by the Iowa, Chicago and Eastern line. As of 2019, the Canadian Pacific Railway runs through the town, mostly carrying grain. [4]
The Armstrong House is an 1896 home in Britt, Iowa, United States. Commissioned by First National Bank president Lewis Larson and built by John Victoria, the historic house combines Colonial Revival and Queen Anne style architecture. The multistory home has two towers, a wraparound porch, hand-carved woodwork, and stained glass windows.
The Iowa Traction Railway Company (reporting mark IATR), formerly the Iowa Traction Railroad Company, is a class III shortline railroad operating in the United States as a common carrier. It was originally founded in 1896 as the Mason City and Clear Lake Railway, a passenger carrier. Since 1937, Business has been exclusively freight.
The train derailed east of Glidden, Iowa, a town of around 1,000 in Carroll County, around 5 p.m. Monday, July 29. Glidden is about 60 miles west of Ames on U.S. Highway 30. The derailment ...
The Santa Fe railroad built a new Fort Madison Station one and a half miles to the south west and moved passenger service there in 1968, leaving the 1910 station empty. They sold the facility to the City of Fort Madison for $1. The railroad removed most of the furnishings.
The railroad did not come to Lyon County until 1885 when the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway (BCR&N) proposed to construct a line between Little Rock, Iowa and Sioux Falls, South Dakota via Rock Rapids. The county and local citizens promised financial support, and the line was completed the following year.
CN Rail, Canada's largest railroad, has purchased Iowa Northern Railway, an independent Waterloo-based shortline that operates 275 miles of track across northeast Iowa. The companies did not ...
Illinois Central Passenger Depot-Storm Lake, also known as the Storm Lake Depot, was an historic building located in Storm Lake, Iowa, United States. The Iowa Falls & Sioux City Railroad, an Illinois Central Railroad (IC) subsidiary, built the first tracks through town in 1870. They also built a two-story frame combination freight and passenger ...