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It is believed to be one of the two standard-plan wooden Wabash combination freight and passenger depots that remain in Iowa. [2] Completed in 1903, it served the Wabash Railroad. The Queen Anne style building is an example of the rural combination station plan. The plan combined all railroad services from passengers to freight in one building. [3]
1886 system map. The source of the Wabash name was the Wabash River, a 475-mile (764 km)-long river in the eastern United States that flows southwest from northwest Ohio near Fort Recovery, across northern Indiana to Illinois where it forms the southern portion of the Illinois-Indiana border before draining into the Ohio River, of which it is the largest northern tributary.
The first railroad to reach Hobart in 1858 was the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway (PFW&C) which later became part of the Pennsylvania Railroad. This was followed by the New York, Chicago & St. Louis (NYC&StL) or ‘Nickel Plate’ in 1882. The Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway (EJ&E) crossed both of these line in Hobart in 1888. [3]
Indiana, Illinois and Iowa Railroad: NYC: 1881 1906 Chicago, Indiana and Southern Railroad: Indiana, Illinois and Iowa Railway: NYC: 1893 1898 Indiana, Illinois and Iowa Railroad: Indiana and Illinois Southern Railroad: IC: 1886 1890 St. Louis, Indianapolis and Eastern Railroad: Indiana Interstate Railway: IIRC 1978 1980 N/A Indiana and Lake ...
The depot was built in 1903, and replaced a smaller and older structure. It was designed by and served the Wabash Railroad as a combination passenger and freight station. The Queen Anne and Stick-Eastlake style station was a standard design used by the railroad. [2] The single-story, frame structure features a gabled roof and wide, overhanging ...
Chicago, Omaha and St. Joseph Railroad: Iowa and Southwestern Railway: 1916 N/A Iowa South Western Railway: CNW: 1880 1884 Chicago and North Western Railway: Iowa Terminal Railroad: IAT 1961 1987 Charles City Railway Line, Inc., Iowa Traction Railroad: Iowa Transfer Railway: CB&Q/ CGW/ RI: 1906 Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs ...
Iowa Interstate Railroad (July 15, 2004), Iowa Interstate Announces Executive Appointment Archived 2005-05-04 at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved May 23, 2005. Announced Miller's presidency. Iowa Interstate Railroad (June 20, 2002), Iowa Interstate Announces Senior Management Changes Archived 2005-05-20 at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved May 23 ...
The Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway (BCR&N) was a railroad that operated in the United States from 1876 to 1903. It was formed to take over the operations of the bankrupt Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Minnesota Railway , which was, in turn, the result of merging several predecessor lines, the construction of which began in 1869.