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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]
Chicago, Omaha and St. Joseph Railroad: Iowa and Southwestern Railway: 1916 N/A Iowa South Western Railway: CNW: 1880 1884 Chicago and North Western Railway: Iowa Terminal Railroad: IAT 1961 1987 Charles City Railway Line, Inc., Iowa Traction Railroad: Iowa Transfer Railway: CB&Q/ CGW/ RI: 1906 Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs ...
Chicago architect Charles Sumner Frost designed this station in the Romanesque Revival style. The baggage room is separated from the depot by a breezeway. Frost designed at least 15 stations for the CNW in Iowa and Nebraska and another 14 in the Chicago area. [2] The building represents the prosperity of the line during the Golden Age of Railroads.
The building remains intact today. However, the station-associated tracks, which in the past had been numerous, have been reduced to a single track farther from the station. The nearest passenger train service is in Osceola, 40 miles to the south, where Amtrak's California Zephyr makes a daily westbound and eastbound stop. [citation needed]
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 ...
Illinois Central Passenger Depot-Storm Lake, also known as the Storm Lake Depot, was an historic building located in Storm Lake, Iowa, United States. The Iowa Falls & Sioux City Railroad, an Illinois Central Railroad (IC) subsidiary, built the first tracks through town in 1870. They also built a two-story frame combination freight and passenger ...
The Romanesque Revival style was inspired by Henry Hobson Richardson's designs for small railroad stations. [2] It was the first railway depot in Wright County. [3] It passed to the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad and continued to serve as a working depot until 1980. The Dows Historical Society bought and restored the depot in 1988.