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was incorporated on May 23, 1870 to build a railroad from
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Railroads of the United States
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251:Manual of the Railroads of the United States
223:Manual of the Railroads of the United States
191:History of Muscatine County, Iowa, Volume I
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366:Railway companies disestablished in 1916
116:Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway
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333:Iowa Department of Transportation
189:S. J. Clarke Publishing Company,
123:Muscatine and Iowa City Railway
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18:Muscatine and Iowa City Railway
337:Iowa Railroad Abandonments Log
280:Interstate Commerce Commission
263:Poor's Railroad Manual Company
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317:Electric Railway Journal
178:American Railroad Manual
132:gas-electric locomotives
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151:Central Iowa Railway
301:Railway Age Gazette
61:Continental Railway
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147:Lone Tree
108:Thornburg
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282:(1929),
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36:History
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