The Iowa Traction Railway Company (reporting mark IATR), formerly the Iowa Traction Railroad Company, is a class III shortline railroad operating in the United States as a common carrier. It was originally founded in 1896 as the Mason City and Clear Lake Railway, a passenger carrier. Business has been exclusively freight since 1937. One of the only remaining freight railroads in the United States to use electric locomotives, the company's main line connects Mason City and Clear Lake, Iowa. The railroad also serves Rorick Park near Mason City.
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135°N 93.280°W / 43.135; -93.280 The IowaTractionRailway Company (reporting mark IATR), formerly the IowaTraction Railroad Company, is a class III shortline...
electrified lengths of the following railways: Amtrak (735 km), Deseret Power Railway (53 km), IowaTractionRailway (9 km), Long Island Rail Road (237...
Museum operate restored equipment on former interurban lines. The IowaTractionRailway still operates freight service today using interurban equipment...
the line was renamed to the IowaTractionRailway. The IowaTractionRailway was operating the locomotive in Mason City, Iowa, in 2021, the locomotive's...
function of any traction engine is to draw a load behind it. They are sometimes called road locomotives to distinguish them from railway locomotives – that...
to investors and renamed as Iowa Terminal. In 1987 the line was purchased once more and was renamed to IowaTractionRailway (IATR) where it now operates...
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in China, numbers 6988 and 7081 (both former Jitong Railway), were originally acquired by the Iowa Interstate Railroad and later donated to Central States...
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