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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
The state purchased the former railroad line property in 2022 and allocated $20 million to jump-start the project. When complete, the Essex-Hudson Greenway will become a 9-mile, 135-acre linear ...
Atlantic, Waycross and Northern Railroad - in 1911 took over the St Marys and Kingland Railroad, a short line between Kingsland and the little port of St Marys, the intention being to make the latter a rival to Brunswick and to build a trunk line from the former to connect with the Southern Railway at Fort Valley. The effort was wasted.