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The loss of timber trestles due to fire led to many of the line segments being put up for abandonment. The southern Iowa economy has generally lagged behind much of the remainder of Iowa and the Midwest, and H&S suffered from a lack of industrial development along its line. The line's revenue base relied too much on coal, products of ...
An abandoned railroad is a railway line which is no longer used for that purpose. Such lines may be disused railways, closed railways, former railway lines, or derelict railway lines. Some have had all their track and sleepers removed, and others have material remaining from their former usage. There are many hundreds of these throughout the ...
Pages in category "Closed railway lines in the United States" The following 117 pages are in this category, out of 117 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
An Indiana jury heard emotional testimony in court on Saturday from a man who found the bodies of two missing teenage girls alongside a creek seven years ago.. Pat Brown took the stand in the long ...
The Elroy-Sparta State Trail is the nation's oldest rail trail, beginning its second life roughly 50 years ago when Wisconsin purchased the abandoned Chicago & North Western Railway line to ...
The Muscatine and 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.Those lines had been built in the 1870s and 1880s by predecessors of the Rock Island, and were mostly abandoned in the 1970s.
The defunct railroads of North America regrouped several railroads in Canada, Mexico, and the United States. The following is a list of the past railroad companies. The following is a list of the past railroad companies.
The railroad bought the Beacon Line right-of-way in 1995 for nearly $4.5 million and once considered using it as an east-west link for its Hudson and Harlem lines.