Download or read book Iowa s Last Narrow Gauge Railroad written by John Tigges and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When talk began circulating in 1848 about the importance of railroads, the people of Cascade grew anxious. Without direct access to navigable rivers other than the Mississippi over 36 miles away, their community could very well fade from existence. They needed a railroad as soon as possible. The idea raced forward, with the backing of the Chicago, Clinton, Dubuque and Minnesota Railroad Company, or "the River Road," which ran along the western bank of the Mississippi River and passed through Bellevue. Their hopes and dreams became reality in a three-foot-gauge line 31 years later, in 1879. In 1880, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway purchased the River Road, which included the narrow-gauge branch line to Cascade. Overjoyed at having a larger entity involved, anticipation for the widening of the rails to standard gauge grew quickly. This book relates the story from the beginning to its abandonment in 1936. Today Bellevue and Cascade survive as thriving small towns and are economically healthy. Despite the fact that 70 years have passed since the last spike was pulled, many people know of and recall Iowa's last narrow-gauge railroad.
Download or read book Milwaukee Road Narrow Gauge written by John Tigges and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners written by Iowa State Commerce Commission and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourth report is accompanied by "Map and profiles of Iowa railroads, 1881".
Download or read book Annual Report written by Iowa. Railroad Commissioners and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report Iowa State Commerce Commission written by Iowa State Commerce Commission and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourth report is accompanied by "Map and profiles of Iowa railroads, 1881".
Download or read book Remembering Southeast Iowa s Peavine written by Michael Richard Johns and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A local history necessarily tells a story. This is the story of a rail line that was built across four counties in southeastern iowa; a rail line that had an affectionate attachment with the communities and farm population it served. The rail line lasted 110 years, and was fondly referred to as "the Peavine" in local terminology; presumably because of the winding route taken across the landscape of southeastern Iowa. The railroad started out as a narrow gauge (36 inch wide track) mine line route, was then converted to standard gauge (56.5 inches) after a bankruptcy, extended westward with an eye toward serving as a main line route to the Sante Fe Railway. The line fell once again into bankruptcy, and was acquired by the Burlington, serving out the remaining 80 years of its operations as a branch or "feeder" line. The history of the "Peavine" includes a story of the communities and people it served. It also tells the story of external forces that spelled doom for the rail line-decisions made elsewhere in corporate board rooms, public policy that subsidized competitors at the expense of the railroad, and of transportation deregulations -- its causes and effects.
Download or read book Ames A Ride Through the Town on the Dinkey written by Farwell T. Brown and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ames has been referred to as a railroad town; more correctly the railroad established itself at the same moment that Iowa Agricultural College, now Iowa State University, was taking form. While the railroad helped to develop Ames, it was the college that drew people with names like Welch, Beardshear, "Tama Jim" Wilson, Charles F. Curtiss, and their successors. The flourishing academic community also drew families like the Loughrans and the Tildens, who were attracted by the positive town-gown relationship. In Ames: A Ride Through Town on the "Dinkey," readers will meet some of these people and tour historic Ames, as the narrow-gauge train nicknamed the "Dinkey" weaves its way through the city's history in over 220 vintage photographs. The images in this book, featuring people and landmarks both past and present, include Ames native J. Herman Banning, the first African-American aviator to be licensed in the U.S.; the dramatic 1922 burning and destruction of the Iowa State College Armory; a rare image of the 1895 Iowa State football team, the first to be called the Cyclones; and finally, downtown Ames' growth from dirt streets with wooden sidewalks to a modern college town.
Download or read book Annual Report Iowa State Commerce Commission written by Iowa State Commerce Commission and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourth report is accompanied by "Map and profiles of Iowa railroads, 1881".
Download or read book Annual Report written by Iowa State Commerce Commission and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Narrow Gauge Railways in America written by Howard Fleming and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Iowa Railroads written by H. Roger Grant and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What began as a study of the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway stretched into more than a dozen contributions on Hawkeye state railroad topics. By 1969 Donovan had examined Iowa's “Little Three”: Chicago Great Western, Illinois Central, and Minneapolis & St. Paul as well as the state's “Big Four”: Chicago & North Western; Chicago, Burlington & Quincy; Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific; and Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific. In addition to these seven core carriers, Donovan covered the state's less prominent railroads: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; Great Northern; and Union Pacific and Wabash. Moreover, he contributed an issue on Iowa's principal interurbans, most of which survived into the 1950s as electric-powered freight-only short lines. In uniting Donovan's articles into a single volume, Iowa Railroads provides the most complete history of Iowa's rail heritage.
Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners for the Year Ending written by Iowa. Board of Railroad Commissioners and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book First Annual Report of the Railroad Commissioners of the State of Wisconsin written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
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Download or read book Iowa s Railroads written by H. Roger Grant and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive history of the railroads of Iowa, featuring over four hundred black-and-white photographs. At one point in time, no place in Iowa was more than a few miles from an active line of rail track. In this splendid companion volume to Steel Trails of Hawkeyeland (IUP, 2005), H. Roger Grant and Don L. Hofsommer explore the pivotal role that railroads played in the urban development of the state as well as the symbiotic relationship Iowa and its rails shared. With more than four hundred black-and-white photographs, a solid inventory of depots and locations, and new information that is sure to impress even the most well-versed railfan, this detailed history of the state’s railroads—including the Chicago & North Western, Cedar Rapids & Iowa City, and the Iowa Northern—will be an essential reference for railroad fans and historians, artists, and model railroad builders. “Iowa’s Railroads is a solid visual introduction to the railroad history of the state.” —Industrial Archeology “With more than 400 black and white photographs, an inventory of depots and locations, and new information that will please railroad fans, [Iowa’s Railroads] will be an essential reference for historians, fans, and model railroad builders.” —Abstracts of Public Administration, Development, and Environment,2010 “This excellent volume is sure to appeal to anyone with an interest in Midwest railway history.” —The Michigan Railfan, March-April 2010 “Grant and Hofsommer, both native Iowans and respected railroad historians, have mined a wide variety of public and private photo collections, and the result is a visual feast of Iowa’s railroad experience.” —The Annals of Iowa, 69, Number 2
Download or read book Digest of the Decisions of the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States Abandonment to Youthful servants Supplement containing index to all notes to cases reported in volumes 1 to 140 inclusive written by Edmund Samson Green and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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