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The former roundhouse of the Iowa City branch was still standing in Iowa City in 2010. [10] The former Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Freight House, built in 1898 on the corner of Front and High Streets in Burlington, Iowa, is now a restaurant. [11] This building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [12]
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.
Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway: Iowa Eastern Railroad: MILW: 1872 1880 Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway: Iowa Falls and Sioux City Railroad: IC: 1867 1888 Dubuque and Sioux City Railroad: Iowa and Great Northern Railway: GN: 1905 1910 Great Northern Railway: Iowa Midland Railway: CNW: 1870 1884 Chicago and North Western ...
The railroad did not come to Lyon County until 1885 when the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway (BCR&N) proposed to construct a line between Little Rock, Iowa and Sioux Falls, South Dakota via Rock Rapids. The county and local citizens promised financial support, and the line was completed the following year.
On September 22, 1995, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway merged with the Burlington Northern to create the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway. However, the merger was not official until December 31, 1996, when a common dispatching system was established, Santa Fe's non-union dispatchers were unionized and the implementation of Santa ...
CN Rail, Canada's largest railroad, has purchased Iowa Northern Railway, an independent Waterloo-based shortline that operates 275 miles of track across northeast Iowa. The companies did not ...