And that’s why the trustees of the State Historical Society of Iowa selected “A Mighty Fine Road: A History of the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad Company” by H. Roger Grant as ...

Though the building was called the Rock Island Depot for the remainder of its life, its history with the Burlington railroad is still ... In 1970, flooding in Iowa made the rail lines impassable ...

When the Minneapolis-St. Louis Rock Island Rocket No. 190 pulled ... Ely, to make Cedar Rapids a railroad hub. The Chicago, Iowa & Nebraska, a rival line to the Iowa Central, was begun at Clinton.

Needing a way to get their grain to Cedar Rapids, shippers along the line bought the railroad from the trustee of the Rock Island bankruptcy. Iowa Northern Railway Co. was formed in 1982.

If you took the Burlington railroad, your itinerary would include going out of the way through Denver. Only the Rock Island had railroad tracks that went directly east from Colorado Springs headed ...

A set of old tracks and remnants of an old swing bridge are reminders of the Rock Island Railroad’s 80 years ... Passenger service from Des Moines, Iowa, to Minneapolis had stopped in the ...

CEDAR RAPIDS - Elected city leaders agreed Tuesday to the acquisition of what is left of the old Rock Island Railroad bridge over ... bridge from Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway Co., or CRANDIC.

The Rock Island Railroad Bridge, which he is charged with ... that the Legislature of Iowa has declared it a public nuisance, and a suit for its removal is now pending before the United States ...