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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.
Pages in category "Defunct Iowa railroads" The following 57 pages are in this category, out of 57 total. ... Iowa Central Air Line Railroad; Iowa, Chicago and Eastern ...
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 ...
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.
The companion line here was the Keokuk and Western Railroad, which became part of the CBQ in 1901. [24] The I&SL line between Centerville and Sedan was abandoned as redundant in 1903. [25] From Sedan, the line ran to Coal City, Iowa before crossing the state line into Missouri.
The Rock Island was the first railroad to enter the county, and continued to operate here into the 1950s. At that time they abandoned the line when the Atlantic cutoff was built providing a more direct route between Atlantic, Iowa and Council Bluffs. While the tracks were removed, the stone arch, the railroad grade, and the right-of-way were ...
The first stage of a multimillion-dollar project to transform an abandoned railroad line into a state park that runs through Essex and Hudson counties will break ground in early 2024.
Iowa and Missouri State Line Railroad: CB&Q: 1859 1870 Burlington and Southwestern Railway: Iowa Northern Railway: 1882 1901 Colfax Northern Railroad: Iowa Northern Central Railroad: CB&Q: 1867 1870 Keokuk, Iowa City and Minnesota Railroad: Iowa and Omaha Short Line Railway: 1908 1916 N/A Iowa Pacific Railroad: CGW: 1870 1879