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Part of the line was reactivated by the Mineral Range Railroad in 2012 for a new mine, the Humboldt Mine. [ 4 ] As of 2016, the Lake Superior & Ishpeming's primary remaining business continued to be the transport of iron ore over a 16-mile (26 km) short line from the Tilden Mine south of Ishpeming, operated by Cleveland-Cliffs, to Lake Superior ...
Train operations continued much as they did during Soo Line and CP Rail ownership. In late 2001 Washington sought to divest itself of the railroad, stating that it was unprofitable. On July 29, 2002 the assets of the I&M Rail Link, LLC were transferred to the Iowa, Chicago & Eastern, which was owned by the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern subsidiary ...
The World Livestock Auctioneer Championship is an annual competition of livestock auctioneers who practice the auction chant typical of rural areas in the United States and Canada. The competition is sponsored by the Livestock Marketing Association and was first held in 1963. [1] Brian Curless won the competition in 2017.
Iowa Pacific's North American freight services are operated by subsidiary Permian Basin Railways, which was formed in 2002 to operate the Texas – New Mexico Railroad and the West Texas and Lubbock Railway; [1] since then, Iowa Pacific through Permian Basin has acquired the Arizona Eastern Railway in 2004, [2] (sold September 1, 2011 to Genesee & Wyoming Inc. [3]) the San Luis & Rio Grande ...
Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. traces its origins to 1934 when husband and wife Earl Congdon Sr. and Lillian Congdon (née Herbert) founded the company with a single straight truck running between Richmond and Norfolk, Virginia.
The Overland Limited leaving 16th Street station (Oakland), in 1906. The Overland Route was a train route operated jointly by the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad/Southern Pacific Railroad, between the eastern termini of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Omaha, Nebraska, [1] and the San Francisco Bay Area, over the grade of the first transcontinental railroad (aka the "Pacific ...
The Reppert School of Auctioneering was founded in 1921 by Col. Fred Reppert of Decatur, Indiana.Fred Reppert started in the auction business as a young boy and quickly rose to the top of his profession, selling auctions in every state of America, and in every province of Canada and Mexico.
Iowa farmer Arthur Luscombe (1922–2008) [6] founded Art's Way Manufacturing in 1956 to produce and sell a power take-off powered grinder-mixer he had developed on his farm near Dolliver. By 1959, the business was manufacturing OEM grinder-mixers for Massey Ferguson , Owatonna / Gehl and International Harvester .