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2. List of railway industry occupations - Wikipedia

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   One man is holding a bar, while others are using rail tongs to position a rail. Photo published in 1917. This is a list of railway industry occupations, but it also includes transient functional job titles according to activity. [1]

3. Burlington and Northwestern Railway - Wikipedia

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   Preliminary work, done over two summers, involved replacing all of the 30 and 35 pound rail with 48 pound rail (on the B&NW) and 65 pound rail (on the B&W) and replacing over 85,000 railroad ties with ties long enough for standard gauge track. [11] Another preliminary job involved planing seats in the ties spaced for standard gauge rails.

4. Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway - Wikipedia

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   A two-span through truss bridge, composed of a Warren truss and a Lattice truss, exists in Iowa City in Napoleon Park. It is now being used by the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway, albeit infrequently. [15] An abandoned three-span Parker through truss bridge, built circa 1890, exists over the Iowa River in Columbus Junction. [16]

5. Iowa and St. Louis Railway - Wikipedia

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   The Iowa and St. Louis Railway (I&SL) was a subsidiary United States railroad operating in south-east Iowa and north-east Missouri from 1902 to 1947. [1] For most of its existence it was part of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CBQ), familiarly known as the Burlington System .

6. Iowa Traction Railway - Wikipedia

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   The name was changed to Iowa Terminal Railroad in December 1960 when General Motors executive and railroad enthusiast Harold C. Boyer of Detroit acquired the company. Boyer acquired the Charles City Western , a 23-mile (37 km) freight interurban operating between Charles City and a connection with the Rock Island at Marble Rock, on December 31 ...

7. Iowa Northern Railway - Wikipedia

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   The origin of the Iowa Northern Railway starts with the major portion of the Manly to Cedar Rapids line which was built in the 1870s by the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railroad, which became part of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (Rock Island RR) in 1902, and remained operated by the Rock Island until that company's bankruptcy in 1980.