List of Iowa Railroads |
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| Railroad Name |
Start Date |
End Date |
| Albia and Centerville Railway |
1890 |
1910 |
| Albia, Knoxville and Des Moines Railroad |
1868 |
1901 |
| Ames and College Railway |
1890 |
1907 |
| Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad |
1863 |
1895 |
| Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway |
1890 |
1996 |
| Atlantic Northern Railway |
1913 |
1936 |
| Atlantic Northern and Southern Railway |
1906 |
1913 |
| Atlantic Southern Railroad |
1879 |
1880 |
| Atlantic Southern Railway |
1913 |
1915 |
| Atlantic and Audubon Railroad |
1878 |
1880 |
| Avoca, Harlan and Northern Railroad |
1878 |
1899 |
| Avoca, Macedonia and South Western Railroad |
1879 |
1880 |
| Boone County Railway |
1899 |
1900 |
| Boone Valley Coal and Railway Company |
1893 |
1899 |
| Boyer Valley Railway |
1898 |
1900 |
| Brownville and Nodaway Valley Railway |
1872 |
1901 |
| Burlington and Missouri Railroad |
1871 |
1901 |
| Burlington and Missouri River Railroad |
1852 |
1875 |
| Burlington and Missouri River Railroad in Nebraska |
1869 |
1880 |
| Burlington and Northwestern Narrow Gauge Railway |
1875 |
1876 |
| Burlington and Northwestern Railway |
1876 |
1902 |
| Burlington and Southwestern Railway |
1869 |
1880 |
| Burlington and Western Railway |
1881 |
1903 |
| Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Minnesota Railway |
1868 |
1878 |
| Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway |
1876 |
1903 |
| Burlington, Fort Madison and Southwestern Railway |
1870 |
1871 |
| Cedar Falls and Minnesota Railroad |
1858 |
1896 |
| Cedar Falls and New Hartford Railroad |
1903 |
1904 |
| Cedar Falls and North Eastern Railroad |
1904 |
1905 |
| Cedar Rapids and Burlington Railroad |
1867 |
1868 |
| Cedar Rapids and Chicago Railroad |
1886 |
1888 |
| Cedar Rapids and Clinton Railway |
1882 |
1902 |
| Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Railroad |
1860 |
1884 |
| Cedar Rapids and St. Louis Railroad |
1871 |
1881 |
| Cedar Rapids and St. Paul Railway |
1865 |
1868 |
| Cedar Rapids, Garner and Northwestern Railway |
1898 |
1900 |
| Cedar Rapids, Iowa Falls and Northwestern Railway |
1880 |
1902 |
| Centerville, Albia and Southern Railway |
1914 |
1916 |
| Centerville, Moravia and Albia Railroad |
1879 |
1890 |
| Central Iowa Railway |
1878 |
1888 |
| Central Railroad of Iowa |
1869 |
1877 |
| Chariton, Des Moines and Southern Railroad |
1876 |
1901 |
| Charles City Western Railway |
1910 |
1964 |
| Cherokee and Dakota Railroad |
1887 |
1888 |
| Chicago Great Western Railroad |
1909 |
1941 |
| Chicago Great Western Railway |
1892 |
1909 |
| Chicago and Iowa Western Railway |
1891 |
1894 |
| Chicago and North Western Railway |
1859 |
1972 |
| Chicago and South Western Railway |
1869 |
1878 |
| Chicago, Anamosa and Northern Railway |
1903 |
1916 |
| Chicago, Bellevue, Cascade and Western Railway |
1878 |
1880 |
| Chicago, Burlington and Kansas City Railway |
1880 |
1901 |
| Chicago, Burlington and Northern Railroad |
1885 |
1899 |
| Chicago, Burlington and Pacific Railroad |
1882 |
1882 |
| Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad |
1855 |
1970 |
| Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railway |
1901 |
1907 |
| Chicago, Clinton and Dubuque Railroad |
1871 |
1877 |
| Chicago, Clinton and Western Railroad |
1877 |
1878 |
| Chicago, Clinton, Dubuque and Minnesota Railroad |
1878 |
1880 |
| Chicago, Decorah and Minnesota Railway |
1881 |
1902 |
| Chicago, Dubuque and Minnesota Railroad |
1871 |
1877 |
| Chicago, Fort Madison and Des Moines Railroad |
1899 |
1901 |
| Chicago, Fort Madison and Des Moines Railway |
1890 |
1899 |
| Chicago, Iowa and Dakota Railway |
1882 |
1903 |
| Chicago, Iowa and Kansas Railway |
1876 |
1877 |
| Chicago, Iowa and Minnesota Railway |
1895 |
1901 |
| Chicago, Iowa and Nebraska Railroad |
1856 |
1884 |
| Chicago, Iowa and Northern Pacific Railroad |
1885 |
1888 |
| Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway |
1872 |
1928 |
| Chicago, Omaha and St. Joseph Railroad |
1872 |
1882 |
| Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad |
1866 |
1916 |
| Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway |
1880 |
1948 |
| Chicago, Santa Fe and California Railway |
1886 |
1900 |
| Chicago, Santa Fe and California Railway of Iowa |
1886 |
1887 |
| Chicago, St. Paul and Kansas City Railway |
1886 |
1893 |
| Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway |
1880 |
1972 |
| Chillicothe and Chariton Railroad |
1878 |
1901 |
| Clarinda, College Springs and South Western Railroad |
1878 |
1901 |
| Clinton and Dubuque Railroad |
1877 |
1878 |
| Colfax Northern Railroad |
1901 |
1912 |
| Colfax Northern Railway |
1912 |
1926 |
| Council Bluffs and St. Joseph Railroad |
1858 |
1869 |
| Council Bluffs and St. Louis Railway |
1878 |
1886 |
| Creston Branch of the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad |
1871 |
1901 |
| Creston and Northern Railroad |
1878 |
1901 |
| Creston, Winterset and Des Moines Railroad |
1911 |
1918 |
| Crooked Creek Railroad and Coal Company |
1875 |
1916 |
| Davenport and North Western Railway |
1876 |
1879 |
| Davenport and Rock Island Bridge, Railway and Terminal Company |
1895 |
1898 |
| Davenport and Rock Island Railway Bridge Company |
1884 |
1895 |
| Davenport and St. Paul Railroad |
1868 |
1876 |
| Davenport, Clinton and Eastern Railway |
1895 |
1901 |
| Davenport, Iowa and Dakota Railroad |
1882 |
1892 |
| Davenport, Rock Island and North Western Railway |
1898 |
1995 |
| Des Moines North Western Railway |
1880 |
1888 |
| Des Moines Southern Railway |
1901 |
1903 |
| Des Moines Terminal Company |
1902 |
Unknown |
| Des Moines Union Railway |
1884 |
1989 |
| Des Moines Valley Railroad |
1864 |
1873 |
| Des Moines Western Railway |
1871 |
1974 |
| Des Moines and Fort Dodge Railroad |
1874 |
1915 |
| Des Moines and Kansas City Railway |
1888 |
1898 |
| Des Moines and Knoxville Railway |
1878 |
1901 |
| Des Moines and Minneapolis Railroad |
1877 |
1884 |
| Des Moines and Minnesota Railroad |
1870 |
1877 |
| Des Moines and Northern Railway |
1889 |
1891 |
| Des Moines and Northwestern Railway |
1887 |
1891 |
| Des Moines and St. Louis Railroad |
1881 |
1899 |
| Des Moines, Adel and Western Railroad |
1875 |
1880 |
| Des Moines, Indianola and Missouri Railroad |
1870 |
1876 |
| Des Moines, Iowa Falls and Northern Railway |
1899 |
1908 |
| Des Moines, Northern and Western Railroad |
1895 |
1899 |
| Des Moines, Northern and Western Railway |
1891 |
1895 |
| Des Moines, Osceola and Southern Railroad |
1879 |
1887 |
| Des Moines, Winterset and South Western Railroad |
1871 |
1879 |
| Dubuque South Western Railroad |
1863 |
1881 |
| Dubuque Western Railroad |
1855 |
1861 |
| Dubuque and Dakota Railroad |
1878 |
1887 |
| Dubuque and MacGregor Railway |
1868 |
1869 |
| Dubuque and Minnesota Railroad |
1877 |
1878 |
| Dubuque and Minnesota Railway |
1869 |
1871 |
| Dubuque and Northwestern Railway |
1883 |
1886 |
| Dubuque and Pacific Railroad |
1853 |
1860 |
| Dubuque and Sioux City Railroad |
1860 |
1946 |
| Dubuque, Bellevue and Mississippi Railway |
1870 |
1871 |
| Dubuque, Marion and Western Railroad |
1860 |
1863 |
| Dunleith and Dubuque Bridge Company |
1857 |
1946 |
| Eldora Railroad and Coal Company |
1866 |
1868 |
| Fairfield and Ottumwa Railroad |
1900 |
1901 |
| Farmers Union Railroad |
1875 |
1875 |
| Forest City Southern Railway |
1881 |
1882 |
| Fort Dodge and Fort Ridgeley Railroad |
1878 |
1881 |
| Fort Dodge and Fort Ridgeley Railroad and Telegraph Company |
1876 |
1878 |
| Fort Dodge and Omaha Railroad |
1898 |
1900 |
| Fort Dodge, Des Moines and Southern Railroad |
1906 |
1942 |
| Fort Madison and Keokuk Railway and Transportation Company |
1862 |
1867 |
| Fort Madison and Northwestern Railway |
1872 |
1890 |
| Fort Madison, Farmington and Western Railroad |
1869 |
1870 |
| Fort Madison, Oskaloosa and Northwestern Railway |
1872 |
1872 |
| Fort Madison, West Point, Keosauqua and Bloomfield Railroad |
1853 |
1857 |
| Galena and Chicago Union Railroad |
1836 |
1864 |
| Gowrie and Northwestern Railway |
1899 |
1900 |
| Great Northern Railway |
1889 |
1970 |
| Grinnell and Montezuma Railroad |
1875 |
1882 |
| Guthrie and Northwestern Railroad |
1879 |
1890 |
| Harlan and Kirkman Railway |
1899 |
1900 |
| Hastings and Avoca Railroad |
1870 |
1901 |
| Humeston and Shenandoah Railroad |
1881 |
1896 |
| Humeston and Shenandoah Railway |
1896 |
1901 |
| Illinois Central Railroad |
1851 |
1972 |
| Iowa Central Air Line Railroad |
1853 |
1864 |
| Iowa Central Railway |
1888 |
1912 |
| Iowa Central and Northwestern Railway |
1880 |
1882 |
| Iowa Central and Western Railway |
1898 |
1916 |
| Iowa City and Western Railway |
1878 |
1902 |
| Iowa Eastern Railroad |
1872 |
1880 |
| Iowa Falls and Sioux City Railroad |
1867 |
1888 |
| Iowa Midland Railway |
1870 |
1884 |
| Iowa Northern Central Railroad |
1867 |
1870 |
| Iowa Northern Railway |
1882 |
1901 |
| Iowa Pacific Railroad |
1870 |
1879 |
| Iowa Railway |
1888 |
1888 |
| Iowa Railway, Coal and Manufacturing Company |
1873 |
1887 |
| Iowa River Railway |
1868 |
1869 |
| Iowa South Western Railway |
1880 |
1884 |
| Iowa Southern Junction Railroad |
1858 |
1859 |
| Iowa Southern Railroad |
1857 |
1862 |
| Iowa Southern Railway |
1868 |
1920 |
| Iowa Southern Utilities Company |
1916 |
1941 |
| Iowa Southern and Missouri Northern Railroad |
1876 |
1880 |
| Iowa Southwestern Railroad |
1870 |
1872 |
| Iowa Transfer Railway |
1906 |
Unknown |
| Iowa and Great Northern Railway |
1905 |
1910 |
| Iowa and Minnesota Railroad |
1870 |
1883 |
| Iowa and Minnesota Railway |
1866 |
1870 |
| Iowa and Missouri State Line Railroad |
1859 |
1870 |
| Iowa and Omaha Short Line Railway |
1908 |
1916 |
| Iowa and Southwestern Railway |
Unknown |
1916 |
| Iowa and St. Louis Railway |
1901 |
1903 |
| Iowa, Minnesota and North Pacific Railway |
1871 |
1877 |
| Iowa, Minnesota and Northwestern Railway |
1898 |
1900 |
| Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad |
1870 |
1901 |
| Keithsburg Bridge Company |
1881 |
1901 |
| Keithsburg, Grinnell and Dakota Railway |
1882 |
1882 |
| Keokuk Railway and Improvement Company |
1891 |
1900 |
| Keokuk Union Depot Company |
1890 |
Unknown |
| Keokuk and Des Moines Railway |
1874 |
1924 |
| Keokuk and Hamilton Bridge Company |
1868 |
Unknown |
| Keokuk and Hamilton Mississippi Bridge Company |
1866 |
1868 |
| Keokuk and Minnesota Railway |
1869 |
1870 |
| Keokuk and North Western Railroad |
1876 |
1881 |
| Keokuk and Northwestern Railroad |
1881 |
1889 |
| Keokuk and St. Paul Railway |
1867 |
1901 |
| Keokuk and Western Railroad |
1886 |
1901 |
| Keokuk, Fort Des Moines and Minnesota Railroad |
1853 |
1864 |
| Keokuk, Iowa City and Minnesota Railroad |
1870 |
1874 |
| Keokuk, Mount Pleasant and Muscatine Railroad |
1855 |
1866 |
| Keokuk, Mount Pleasant and Northern Railroad |
1879 |
1881 |
| Keosauqua and Southwestern Railroad |
1880 |
1890 |
| Leon, Mount Ayr and Southwestern Railroad |
1878 |
1901 |
| Linn County Railway |
1886 |
1887 |
| Manchester and Oneida Railway |
1900 |
1951 |
| Maple River Railroad |
1876 |
1884 |
| Maple Valley Railway |
1886 |
1887 |
| Maquoketa, Hurstville and Dubuque Railroad |
1888 |
1903 |
| Marshalltown and Dakota Railway |
1895 |
1903 |
| Mason City and Fort Dodge Railroad |
1881 |
1940 |
| Mason City and Fort Dodge Railway |
1902 |
1905 |
| Mason City and Minnesota Railway |
1870 |
1871 |
| McGregor Western Railway |
1863 |
1867 |
| McGregor and Missouri River Railway |
1869 |
1880 |
| McGregor and Sioux City Railway |
1868 |
1869 |
| Milwaukee and Prairie du Chien Railway |
1861 |
1867 |
| Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway |
1863 |
1874 |
| Milwaukee, Chicago, Cassville and Montana Railroad |
1871 |
1872 |
| Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad |
1894 |
1944 |
| Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad and Telegraph Company of Iowa |
1895 |
1895 |
| Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway |
1870 |
1894 |
| Minnesota and Iowa Railway |
1898 |
1900 |
| Minnesota and Iowa Southern Railway |
1878 |
1881 |
| Minnesota and Northwestern Railroad |
1854 |
1894 |
| Mississippi River Railroad and Toll Bridge Company |
1886 |
1900 |
| Mississippi Valley and Western Railway |
1871 |
1875 |
| Mississippi and Missouri Railroad |
1853 |
1866 |
| Mississippi, Maquoketa and Northwestern Railroad |
1868 |
1871 |
| Missouri Valley and Blair Railway and Bridge Company |
1882 |
1920 |
| Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska Railway |
1870 |
1886 |
| Moulton, Albia and Des Moines Railroad |
1899 |
1899 |
| Mount Pleasant and Keokuk Railroad |
1889 |
1889 |
| Moville Extension Railway |
1901 |
1901 |
| Murray and Creston Railroad |
1900 |
1901 |
| Muscatine North and South Railroad |
1893 |
1905 |
| Muscatine North and South Railway |
1905 |
1916 |
| Muscatine Western Railroad |
1870 |
1872 |
| Muscatine and Iowa City Railway |
1915 |
1916 |
| Muscatine, Burlington and Southern Railroad |
1916 |
1925 |
| Nebraska City, Sidney and North Eastern Railway |
1878 |
1901 |
| Nebraska Railway |
1875 |
1908 |
| New Sharon, Coal Valley and Eastern Railroad |
1880 |
1882 |
| Newton and Monroe Railroad |
1877 |
1880 |
| Newton and Northwestern Railroad |
1902 |
1909 |
| Omaha Bridge and Terminal Railway Company |
1892 |
1946 |
| Omaha and St. Louis Railroad |
1896 |
1901 |
| Omaha and St. Louis Railway |
1887 |
1896 |
| Ottumwa Terminal Railroad |
Unknown |
1989 |
| Ottumwa, Cedar Falls and St. Paul Railway |
1883 |
1884 |
| Red Oak and Atlantic Railroad |
1870 |
1901 |
| Sabula, Ackley and Dakota Railroad |
1870 |
1872 |
| Sac City and Wall Lake Railroad |
1877 |
1878 |
| Sioux City Terminal Railroad and Warehouse Company |
1889 |
1900 |
| Sioux City Terminal Railway |
1907 |
1972 |
| Sioux City and St. Paul Railroad |
1866 |
1879 |
| Sioux Valley Railway |
1887 |
1887 |
| Southern Iowa Railway |
1900 |
1901 |
| Southern Iowa Traction Company |
1910 |
1914 |
| St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad |
1867 |
1870 |
| St. Louis and Cedar Rapids Railway |
1865 |
1873 |
| St. Louis, Des Moines and Northern Railway |
1881 |
1889 |
| St. Louis, Keokuk and North Western Railway |
1875 |
1887 |
| St. Louis, Keokuk and Northwestern Railroad |
1887 |
1901 |
| St. Louis, Keosauqua and St. Paul Railroad |
1873 |
1875 |
| St. Louis, Ottumwa and Cedar Rapids Railway |
1875 |
1887 |
| St. Paul and Des Moines Railroad |
1905 |
1911 |
| St. Paul and Kansas City Short Line Railroad |
1911 |
1948 |
| St. Paul and Sioux City Railroad |
1870 |
1881 |
| Stacyville Railroad |
1897 |
1903 |
| Stanwood and Tipton Railway |
1872 |
1884 |
| Tabor and Northern Railway |
1887 |
1934 |
| Tama and Toledo Railroad |
Unknown |
1953 |
| Tarkio Valley Railroad |
1880 |
1900 |
| Toledo and Northwestern Railway |
1869 |
1890 |
| Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw Railway |
1864 |
1880 |
| Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad |
1879 |
1886 |
| Toledo, Peoria and Western Railway |
1887 |
1927 |
| Union Pacific Railroad |
1862 |
1880 |
| Union Pacific Railway |
1880 |
1898 |
| Union Terminal Railway |
1900 |
1910 |
| Wabash Railroad |
1851 |
1915 |
| Wabash Railway |
1876 |
1942 |
| Wabash Western Railway |
1887 |
1889 |
| Waterloo, Cedar Falls and Northern Railway |
1904 |
1944 |
| Waukon and Mississippi Railroad |
1875 |
1880 |
| Waverly Short Line |
1885 |
1902 |
| Webster City and Southwestern Railroad |
1883 |
1890 |
| Western Iowa Railroad |
1884 |
1901 |
| Willmar and Sioux Falls Railway |
1886 |
1907 |
| Winona and Southwestern Railway |
1872 |
1894 |
| Winona and Western Railway |
1894 |
1901 |
| Winona, Osage and Southwestern Railway |
1891 |
1891 |
| Wisconsin, Iowa and Nebraska Railway |
1882 |
1886 |
| Wisconsin, Minnesota and Pacific Railroad |
1894 |
1920 |
| Worthington and Sioux Falls Railroad |
1878 |
1879 |
