The expansion came from a $1.2 million acquisition from Wendling Quarries Inc. based in Vinton. Project credit goes to ...

For more than 40 years, the Milwaukee Road railroad operated a passenger train route between Chicago and Omaha, Neb., that crossed Iowa and included a stop in Marion.

Sioux City and its railroad history will be the stars of the next two issues of The Milwaukee Railroader magazine, the quarterly publication of the Milwaukee Road Historical Association.

The railroad first reached Elkader in 1875 with the narrow gauge tracks of the Iowa Eastern Railroad. That company was later bought by the Milwaukee Road Railroad, which had its first train enter ...

Soo Line Corp., parent company of Soo Line Railroad Co., completed its $570 million purchase of the Milwaukee Road late Tuesday, ending the bankruptcy reorganization of the Chicago-based railroad.

Jim Gates, founder of the Lionel Collectors Club of America (LCCA), celebrated his 90th birthday on June 25. Jim began working on the real railroad as a senior in high school in 1953. He worked after ...

Soo Line had bought the depot in 1985 from Milwaukee Road, otherwise known as the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad. The depot in the 1910s. Courtesy Kelvin Retterath Collection ...

LA MOTTE, Iowa — A railroad depot that was in La Motte for more than a century has been moved to a museum in Maquoketa.