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The loss of timber trestles due to fire led to many of the line segments being put up for abandonment. The southern Iowa economy has generally lagged behind much of the remainder of Iowa and the Midwest, and H&S suffered from a lack of industrial development along its line. The line's revenue base relied too much on coal, products of ...
North of Perry, Iowa 144 enters Boone County for just under 5 miles (8.0 km). [1] The Boone County stretch of Iowa 144 is predominantly east–west, while the rest of the highway is north–south. In Greene County, Iowa 144 turns to the northwest, along an abandoned railroad line, and goes through Rippey.
An abandoned branch of the Otley and Ilkley Joint Railway, England Example of conversion of part of an abandoned railway line to a regenerated habitat. An abandoned railroad is a railway line which is no longer used for that purpose. Such lines may be disused railways, closed railways, former railway lines, or derelict railway lines. Some have ...
One of the most profitable beer and food concessions at the Iowa State Fair is up for grabs in 2025 after the fair board decided Wednesday to discontinue a contract with its operators, a prominent ...
S. San Bernardino–Riverside Line; San Dimas Line; San Fernando Line; San Francisco and Alameda Railroad; San Francisco and Oakland Railroad; San Joaquin Valley and Yosemite Railroad
Winn & Sara's Kitchen won 2024 People's Choice Best New Food Contest at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines on Aug. 16, 2024. The bacon cheeseburger egg roll. There were 9,204 votes for the People's ...
The Iowa State Fair was held in a different community every two years after it was first established. The first fair was held in Fairfield in 1854. The other towns that hosted the fair included Muscatine, Oskaloosa, Iowa City, Dubuque, Burlington, Clinton, Keokuk and Cedar Rapids. [2] The state fair moved to Des Moines permanently in 1878.
The Muscatine and Iowa City Railway was a short-lived railroad that leased several lines in southeastern Iowa in 1916 from the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway.Those lines had been built in the 1870s and 1880s by predecessors of the Rock Island, and were mostly abandoned in the 1970s.