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Dakota Central Railway: CNW: 1879 1900 Winona and St. Peter Railroad: Dakota and Great Northern Railway: GN: 1900 1907 Great Northern Railway: Dakota and Great Southern Railway: MILW: 1883 1886 Chicago, St. Paul and Milwaukee Railway: Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad: DME 1986 1991 Red River Valley and Western Railroad: Devils Lake and ...
Train Name Railroad Train Endpoints in a typical [year] Operated Dakota 400: Chicago & North Western: Chicago, Illinois - Rapid City, South Dakota [1952] 1950-1960 Dakota Express: Chicago & North Western: St. Paul, Minnesota - Pierre, South Dakota [1919] 1897-1901; 1911-1913; 1919-1923 Dakota Express: Great Northern
The North and Midwest constructed networks that linked every city by 1860 before the war. In the heavily settled Midwestern Corn Belt , over 80 percent of farms were within 5 miles (8 km) of a railway, facilitating the shipment of grain, hogs, and cattle to national and international markets.
A narrow-gauge railway running through the center of Burke, Idaho.. This is a list of railway towns in the United States listed by state. The United States has a high concentration of railway towns, communities that developed and/or were built around a railway system.
Washington, DC–Buffalo, New York (The Pennsylvania Railroad has several trains with this name with different destinations) [1951] 1877–1891; 1900–1906; 1910–1913; 1918–1927; 1951–1958 Washington Express: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania–Washington, DC [1945] 1942–1948 Washington Irving: Amtrak
The Encyclopedia of Trains & Locomotives (2002) Saunders, Richard. Main lines: Rebirth of the North American railroads, 1970–2002 (Northern Illinois University Press, 2003). Stover, John. The Routledge Historical Atlas of the American Railroads (2001) Stover, John. History of the Illinois Central Railroad (1975) Stover, John.
Houghton, Michigan – St. Ignace, Michigan (with through trains to many other destinations) [1900] 1893-1900 Lake Superior Limited: Northern Pacific Railway: Minneapolis–Saint Paul – Duluth, Minnesota [1928] 1901-1905; 1921-1930 The Laker: Soo Line: Chicago, Illinois – Duluth, Minnesota [1952] 1951-1965 Land O'Corn: Illinois Central
1945 Michigan train wreck, Michigan, North Dakota; 34 killed plus hundreds injured. North Dakota's deadliest rail disaster to date [143] [144] 1945 California Limited derailment, Santa Anita, California; 5 killed plus hundreds injured [145] 1946 Naperville train disaster, Naperville, Illinois; 45 killed plus 125 injured. Eventually convinced ...