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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 ...
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).
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 Corn Palaces were large wooden buildings with corn cobs nailed to their walls. [3] The first Corn Palace was built in 1887, and was designed by architect W.E. Loft. The Corn Palace became larger and grander every year. The last Sioux City Corn Palace, built in 1891, sprawled across the city's downtown area.
The Dubuque & Sioux City Railroad, an affiliate of the Illinois Central Railroad (IC), laid the first rail track to Iowa Falls in 1865. Two years later the Iowa Falls & Sioux City Railroad, another IC affiliate, continued construction of the line to the west, and it reached Sioux City by 1870. They built a plain, two-story frame depot to serve ...
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.
The railroad property of the Sioux City Bridge Company, herein called the Sioux City Bridge, is located in the States of Iowa and Nebraska, and comprises a bridge across the Missouri River, together with a single-track, standard-gauge, steam railroad, extending from Sioux City, Iowa, to South Sioux City, Nebr., 3.879 miles. The Sioux City ...
website, history of the Corps of Discovery's time in the Sioux City area in 1804, and the Betty Strong Encounter Center that commemorates a history of encounters that occurred before and after the expedition Sioux City Public Museum: Sioux City: Woodbury: West: Local history: City history, culture, agriculture, transportation Sioux City ...