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Eventually, eight railroads would serve Sioux City before consolidations reduced the number to six, making the city the tenth largest rail center in the country in the 1920s and 1930s. [3] In 1912 the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road) announced they would build a repair shop terminal in Sioux City. Construction ...
Chicago and North Western Railway: Sioux City and Pembina Railway: MILW: 1870 1879 Sioux City and Dakota Railroad: Sioux City and St. Paul Railroad: CNW: 1866 1879 St. Paul and Sioux City Railroad: Sioux City Terminal Railroad and Warehouse Company: GN: 1889 1900 Union Terminal Railway: Sioux City Terminal Railway: SCT 1907 1972 N/A Sioux ...
The Sioux City and Pacific Railroad was a railroad in the U.S. states of Iowa and Nebraska.Built as a connection from Sioux City, Iowa to the Union Pacific Railroad at Fremont, Nebraska, it became part of the Chicago and North Western Railway system in the 1880s, and is now a main line of the Union Pacific (UP).
Other lines acquired and added to the network included the Chicago, St. Paul and Fond du Lac Railroad in 1859, the Winona and St. Peter Railroad in 1867, the Chicago, Milwaukee and North Western Railway in 1883, the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad in 1880, the Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad in 1884, and the Milwaukee, Lake Shore ...
All of the buildings are associated with the Illinois Central Railroad (IC). The Dubuque & Sioux City Railroad, an affiliate of the IC, laid the first rail track to Iowa Falls in 1866. The following year the Iowa Falls & Sioux City Railroad, another IC affiliate, continued construction of the line to the west, and it reached Sioux City by 1870
The Proposed Network of Preferred Routes from the Federal Railroad Administration. The map includes routes through South Dakota, the only state in the contiguous U.S. to have never had passenger ...
Simmons Hardware Company Building in Sioux City in 1917 The 123-foot (37 m) clock tower was designed to and would become an important landmark. The building was intended to be an "ornament" and the tower was intended to convey importance and the 12 numbers on the clockface were intended to be replaced by the letters T-R-O-Q-R-L-A-T-P-I-F.
Like most other major railroads, the CNW overbuilt; meaning every town in extreme Southwest Minnesota had a railroad by 1900. Many of these branch lines had a temporary boom of business but soon were operating at a loss. The main business was based on agriculture products and the railroads were often a victim of poor crop years, which was often.