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Car 1718 stopping at the Yarmouth depot and ticket office. The Chicago Burlington and Quincy depot from Yarmouth, Iowa, was donated and moved to Old Thresher's fairgrounds; it was originally used as the trolley ticket office and gift shop. The building was used for storage and the aesthetic appearance of having an old building near a trolley ...
Between 2006 and 2021, the City of Fort Madison, BNSF Railway, Amtrak, the Iowa Department of Transportation, the Southeast Iowa Regional Planning Commission, and the NLCHS worked together to restore the old Santa Fe station and create an Amtrak waiting room and ticket office in addition to museum space. [6]
The name was changed to Iowa Terminal Railroad in December 1960 when General Motors executive and railroad enthusiast Harold C. Boyer of Detroit acquired the company. Boyer acquired the Charles City Western , a 23-mile (37 km) freight interurban operating between Charles City and a connection with the Rock Island at Marble Rock, on December 31 ...
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In its final years it served only as a limited service stop station between Atlantic to the west and Des Moines to the east, on a local train between Omaha and Chicago. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The depot, which was abandoned by the railroad in 1977, is the only structure that remains in Stuart from its heyday as a railroad town. [ 2 ]
Iowans can see the light-covered train on its journey across North America, making stops from Nov. 21 to Dec. 20. During that time, the CPKC Holiday Train will stop in four Iowa towns across two days.
The Silver Train of Stockholm (Silverpilen) is a ghost train which features in several Swedish urban legends alleging sightings of a silver colored metro train in the Stockholm Metro. [26] The St. Louis Ghost Train, better known as the St. Louis Light , is visible at night along an old abandoned rail line in between Prince Albert and St. Louis ...