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A train depot was built at Britt in 1870, with tracks running from east to west through the town. [3] The first train line running through the town was the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul line, followed by the Iowa, Chicago and Eastern line. As of 2019, the Canadian Pacific Railway runs through the town, mostly carrying grain. [4]
It is an example of a replacement station built along its Iowa mainline by the Chicago and North Western Railway (CNW) in 1896. [2] It replaced a two-story, frame, combination station that was first built in 1867 by its predecessor line, the Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Railroad. That building had experienced two fires.
The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Passenger Station is a historic building located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. Built in 1898 for passenger use, it was the second depot in the city. [2] The first one was built by the Mississippi and Missouri Railroad, a predecessor of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (CRI&P), in ...
The depot is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Passenger Depot and also has been known as just Rock Island Depot. [2] The depot opened in 1899 and would become a daily stop for the Rocky Mountain Rocket , Midwest Hiawatha , the Arrow , and Corn Belt Rocket before the end of passenger ...
For 10 years, Pella served as the only rail stop in Marion County until a competing station was built in Knoxville, Iowa by the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad. [2] The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad leased the Des Moines Valley's tracks beginning in 1878 and provided freight service through 1980. The old frame building was ...
The Chicago Great Western Railroad-Waterloo Freight Depot is a historic building located in Waterloo, Iowa, United States.In 1887 the Chicago, St. Paul & Kansas City Railroad (CSP&KC) was the third system to enter the city, after the Illinois Central (1870) and the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway (1876).
By 1970, passenger service was a mere single train west (#7) to Council Bluffs and east (#10) to Chicago. [5] Service ended on May 31, 1970; with the end of the Council Bluffs train. [6] In 1986 the Douglas Wells architectural firm designed the restoration of the building.
In 1897 the railroad moved its facilities to Valley Junction, now West Des Moines. The station last had passenger service in 1965. 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]