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When the Iowa Interstate Railroad moved into a new $19 million locomotive maintenance shop and crew change center near South Amana on Oct. 25, it marked the latest example of private capital ...
IOWA CITY — Iowa Interstate Railroad is preparing to build a transloading facility in southeast Iowa City that will allow the transfer of cargo between railcars and trucks. The Cedar Rapids ...
The Iowa Interstate Railroad (IAIS) recently celebrated its 40 th anniversary. The 580-mile Class II, owned by Railroad Development Corp. (RDC), was established in 1984 on former Chicago, Rock Island ...
A new rail-to-truck trans-loading facility is coming to Iowa City following a purchase of 30 acres of land by the Iowa Interstate Railroad. The new facility will be located in southeast Iowa City on ...
How a once-in-a-generation Interstate reconstruction provided an opportunity to improve the railway network. The $1.4 billion Council Bluffs Interstate System Improvements Program—the largest highway ...
High winds from overnight storms led to several grain cars derailing in Mitchellville. Mitchellville Police Chief Bill Daggett said the department received a report stating that three grain cars had ...
The Iowa Interstate Railroad has completed its $1.5 millon purchase of about 30 acres in Iowa City's industrial park to serve as the site of a new transloading facility, ...
Railroading Heritage of Midwest America will operate two days of fundraising trips Sept. 20-21 with Union Pacific DDA40X No.
Henry Posner first entered the railroad business in 1966 at a time the industry was struggling and it didn’t look like trains would play much of a role in the Iowa Interstate Railroad wants to ...
DES MOINES, Iowa – A 17-year-old boy suffered only cuts and bruises after being run over by a train in northwestern Iowa. Des Moines TV station KCCI says the Altoona teen told city police he had ...
Iowa Interstate Railroad was forward-thinking and saw an opportunity to control the property and transform it into an industrial park, Bowman said.