The Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Railroad was a railroad chartered to run from Cedar Rapids, Iowa to Council Bluffs, Iowa on the Missouri River. Under...
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Chelsea, Iowa (section Railroad)
steadily: bridging the Cedar River and reaching Otter Creek by 1861 and Chelsea in 1862. The Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Railroad, under lease to the...
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transcontinental railroad although the competing Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Railroad under lease to the Chicago & North Western railroad actually became...
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through subsidiaries Illinois Central Railroad (IC) Cedar River Railroad (CEDR) and Chicago Central and Pacific Railroad (CC) Canadian Pacific Kansas City...
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start in the year 1862, following construction of the Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Railroad through the territory. Tama is located a few miles from...
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Victor, Iowa (section Railroad)
the East and it played a significant role in the development of the first transcontinental railroad. The Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Railroad, under...
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Louis, Kansas City and Northern (formerly the North Missouri Railroad) at Moberly, Missouri were inherited, which employed about 1,200 and built most of the...
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City and Pacific Railroad was organized for this purpose in August 1864, and soon came under common ownership with the Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Railroad...
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(CLNA) Carolina Piedmont Railroad (CPDR) Cascade and Columbia River Railroad (CSCD) CaterParrott Railnet (CPR) Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway (CIC)...
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The North Missouri Railroad was a railway company that operated in the states of Missouri and Iowa in the mid-19th century. Incorporated in 1851, at its...
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the Rocky and Appalachian mountains. The river either borders or passes through the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky...
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his fledgling M&M Railroad had a deal in the works, while secretly buying stock in the depressed Cedar Rapids and Missouri Railroad. Then he circulated...
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and 3 is LaMoille's main street. Each man paid $1.50 an acre at the government land office in Iowa City. Surveyors for the Cedar Rapids and Missouri River...
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Wisconsin Rapids is a city in and the county seat of Wood County, Wisconsin, United States, along the Wisconsin River. The population was 18,877 at the...
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Burlington Railroad most commonly refers to the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. Burlington Railroad may also refer to: Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern...
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the Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Railroad. That building had experienced two fires. The CNW had built two branch lines from Carroll in 1877 and 1880...
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Galena&CU RR 1861 |Quote= "Forty miles of the Cedar Rapids & Missouri River Railroad have been completed and will be opened for business in the present month...
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through La Salle, and Rock Island was reached on February 22, 1854, becoming the first railroad to connect Chicago with the Mississippi River. In Iowa, the...
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U.S. Route 30 in Iowa (category Transportation in Cedar County, Iowa)
western Iowa, Boone, Ames, and Marshalltown in central Iowa, and Tama, Cedar Rapids, and DeWitt in eastern Iowa. Cutting across the central portion of...
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by way of Cedar Rapids. It was designated in 1925 and signed in 1926 along two primary highways. The route began at the Mississippi River with US 61...
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Creek Bridge Black River Bridge Broadway Bridge Buffalo River Bridge Cache River Bridge Cane Hill Road Bridge Cannon Creek Bridge Cedar Creek Bridge (Petit...
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bankrupt in 1862, and was later purchased by the Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Railroad. In 1858, Chicago, Iowa & Nebraska Railroad began construction...
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Packing opened in Cedar Rapids, Booge and Company started in Sioux City, and John Morrell & Company set up operations in Ottumwa. The railroads also created...
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soon ceased operations, and the stub at Iowa City is now operated by the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway. American Railroad Manual, 1873, p. 486 S....
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Indian Creek (redirect from Indian Creek (Missouri))
Creek (Cedar River tributary) Indian Creek (Des Moines River tributary) Indian Creek (Iowa River tributary) Indian Creek (Little Osage River tributary)...
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Iowa (redirect from Railroads in Iowa)
statistical areas in Iowa include Iowa City, Cedar Rapids, Waterloo-Cedar Falls, Ames, Dubuque, Sioux City, and the Iowa portion of the Quad Cities. Iowa...
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I-80, and continues north with I-380 towards Cedar Rapids. There US 218 diverges from IA 27 and joins the US30/US151 bypass of south Cedar Rapids. US 151...
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Jake Award (category Occupational safety and health awards)
Brandywine Valley Railroad Brownsville and Rio Grande International Railroad Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad Chicago South...
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June 2008 Midwest floods (category History of Cedar Rapids, Iowa)
bridges over the Cedar River in downtown Cedar Rapids were closed at 8:00 pm CDT (0100 UTC) on June 11. On June 12, a levee broke, a railroad bridge owned...
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Luzerne, Iowa (category Cedar Rapids, Iowa metropolitan area)
Buckeye station was run by railroad magnate John I Blair’s railroad group who owned the Cedar Rapids & Missouri River railroad which had originally planned...
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