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The railroad also runs a short trolley ride and has begun to do light freight switching at Boone industries in recent years. Its station is located just one block from the Union Pacific Railroad mainline. On March 10, 2023, ex-Chicago and North Western 401, an EMD F7, arrived on the railroad, having been donated by the Union Pacific Railroad ...
Cedar Falls and Normal Railway. Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway and Light Company. Cedar Rapids and Marion City Railway. Centerville Light and Traction Company. Charles City Western Railway. Citizens' Railway and Light Company. Clinton, Davenport and Muscatine Railway. Clinton Street Railway. Clinton and Lyons Horse Railway.
The Kate Shelley High Bridge, officially called the Boone Viaduct when it was completed in 1901, is one of the highest and longest double-track railroad bridges in the United States. It is located approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Boone, Iowa . It was nicknamed after the Iowa railroad heroine, Catherine Carroll Shelley, better known as ...
Length: 109 miles. Take in the splendor of the Black Hills from the George S. Mickelson Trail, which snakes from Deadwood to Edgemont in southwestern South Dakota. Much of the trail bisects the ...
The Overland Limited leaving 16th Street station (Oakland), in 1906. The Overland Route was a train route operated jointly by the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad/Southern Pacific Railroad, between the eastern termini of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Omaha, Nebraska, and the San Francisco Bay Area, over the grade of the first transcontinental railroad (aka the "Pacific ...
It currently sits on display at the Boone and Scenic Valley Railroad in Boone, Iowa and is still painted with the CO&E's classic pyramid logo. The railroad's other steam engine, 2-4-2T #5, is currently in storage at the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway in Jackson, Missouri and pending further restoration.
Fore River Transportation Corporation (FRVT) Fort Smith Railroad (FSR) Fort Worth and Western Railroad (FWWR) Fox Valley & Lake Superior Rail System (FOXY) Fredonia Valley Railroad (FVRR) Fulton County Railroad (FC) Fulton County Railway (FCR) Galveston Railroad (GVSR) Garden City Western Railway (GCW)
A steam train operated by the Boone&Scenic Valley Railroad, a heritage railroad that operates excursions in Boone County, Iowa, crosses the 156-foot-tall Bass Point Creek Bridge. The railroad was started in 1983 by a group of volunteers who wanted to preserve a scenic section of the former Fort Dodge, Des Moines and Southern Railroad.