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Keokuk, Iowa City and Minnesota Railroad: Iowa and Omaha Short Line Railway: 1908 1916 N/A Iowa Pacific Railroad: CGW: 1870 1879 Dubuque and Dakota Railroad, Mason City and Fort Dodge Railroad: Iowa River Railway: MSTL: 1868 1869 Central Railroad of Iowa: Iowa and St. Louis Railway: CB&Q: 1901 1903 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad: Iowa ...
Sheldon got its start in the year 1873, following construction of the Sioux City & St. Paul Railroad through that territory. [3] It was named for Israel Sheldon, a railroad promoter. [ 4 ] It was a strategic location on the rail for businesses from as far away as Minneapolis and Omaha , after the addition of the intersection with the Chicago ...
The origin of the Iowa Northern Railway starts with the major portion of the Manly to Cedar Rapids line which was built in the 1870s by the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railroad, which became part of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (Rock Island RR) in 1902, and remained operated by the Rock Island until that company's bankruptcy in 1980.
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 ...
As it crosses into O'Brien County on the western edge of Sheldon, US 18 intersects Iowa 60 Business (Iowa 60 Bus.). The two routes head east toward a diamond interchange with Iowa 60 on the eastern side of town where the business loop ends. The highway roughly parallels the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad (DM&E Railroad).
C. Canadian Pacific Railway; Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Railroad; Cedar Valley Railroad; Central Iowa Railway; Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railway
October 30: The Canadian Pacific Railway takes control of the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad and subsidiary Iowa, Chicago and Eastern Railroad, the latter consisting of trackage spun off by the CP in 1997. 2009. February 1: The Canadian National Railway takes control of the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway (no longer Class I).
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. Business has been exclusively freight since 1937.