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Eventually, eight railroads would serve Sioux City before consolidations reduced the number to six, making the city the tenth largest rail center in the country in the 1920s and 1930s. [3] In 1912 the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road) announced they would build a repair shop terminal in Sioux City. Construction ...
All of the buildings are associated with the Illinois Central Railroad (IC). The Dubuque & Sioux City Railroad, an affiliate of the IC, laid the first rail track to Iowa Falls in 1866. The following year the Iowa Falls & Sioux City Railroad, another IC affiliate, continued construction of the line to the west, and it reached Sioux City by 1870
This list of museums in Iowa is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
There was a robbery of a saddlebag from the museum in 1996 that was part of a string of museum thefts which involved stealing Native American artifacts. [4] A new location was opened in 2011 in Sioux City's downtown at a former J. C. Penney store which includes a theater, classrooms, and exhibition rooms. [5] The museum project cost $12.5 million.
The Sioux City and Pacific Railroad was a railroad in the U.S. states of Iowa and Nebraska.Built as a connection from Sioux City, Iowa to the Union Pacific Railroad at Fremont, Nebraska, it became part of the Chicago and North Western Railway system in the 1880s, and is now a main line of the Union Pacific (UP).
A railway museum is a museum that explores the history of all aspects of rail related transportation, including: locomotives (steam, diesel, and electric), railway cars, trams, and railway signalling equipment. They may also operate historic equipment on museum grounds.
The museum changed its name to the Warner Museum of Aviation and Transportation after receiving a donation from Jim Warner of the Warner Group in 2007 that made up the difference. [12] It broke ground on a new 30,000 sq ft (2,800 m 2 ) building at the Sioux Gateway Airport in April 2009.
Chicago and North Western Railway: Sioux City and Pembina Railway: MILW: 1870 1879 Sioux City and Dakota Railroad: Sioux City and St. Paul Railroad: CNW: 1866 1879 St. Paul and Sioux City Railroad: Sioux City Terminal Railroad and Warehouse Company: GN: 1889 1900 Union Terminal Railway: Sioux City Terminal Railway: SCT 1907 1972 N/A Sioux ...