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The Alliance Commercial Historic District, located roughly along Box Butte Ave. in Alliance, Nebraska is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. It includes Romanesque and Mission/Spanish Revival architecture amidst its 44 contributing buildings over 17.4 acres (7.0 ha).
Nebraska, Wyoming and Western Railroad: CB&Q: 1899 1908 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad: North-Eastern Nebraska Railroad: CNW: 1888 1888 Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway: Northern Nebraska Air Line Railroad: CNW: 1867 1868 Sioux City and Pacific Railroad: Omaha Belt Railway: MP: 1883 1910 Missouri Pacific Railway
Alliance is a city and the county seat of Box Butte County, [3] in the western part of the state of Nebraska, in the Great Plains region of the United States. Its population was 8,151 at the 2020 census. [4] Alliance is home to Carhenge, a replica of Stonehenge constructed with automobiles, which is located north of the city. It is also the ...
That same year it began advertising "millions of acres of cheap land" as an incentive to prospective settlers to Iowa and Nebraska. [4] Burlington and Missouri River Railroad roundhouse and shop in 1903 map in Alliance, Nebraska. The Burlington and Missouri River Railroad was acquired by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad in 1872.
BNSF Railway (reporting mark BNSF) is the largest freight railroad in the United States. One of six North American Class I railroads, BNSF has 36,000 employees, [1] 33,400 miles (53,800 km) of track in 28 states, and over 8,000 locomotives. [2]
Union Pacific employs more than 2,600 people in North Platte, [1] most of whom are responsible for the day-to-day operations of Bailey Yard. An average of 139 trains and over 14,000 railroad cars pass through Bailey Yard every day. The yard sorts approximately 3,000 cars daily using the yard's two humps. The eastbound hump is a 34 foot (10 m ...
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Founded in 1994, the railroad's purpose was to haul grain from elevators in Merriman and other locations farther west, via trackage rights to its connection with the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern, now Rapid City, Pierre and Eastern Railroad at Dakota Junction and a further 20 miles (32 km) by trackage rights to a connection with the Burlington Northern Santa Fe at Crawford, Nebraska.