Global Information Lookup Global Information

Iowa Traction Railway information


43°08′06″N 93°16′48″W / 43.135°N 93.280°W / 43.135; -93.280

Iowa Traction Railway
Network of the IATR and its predecessors
IATR #54 hauling a train in 2009.
Overview
HeadquartersMason City, Iowa
Reporting markIATR
Dates of operation1897 (1897)
Technical
Track gauge4 ft 8+12 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Other
Website[1]

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.

and 24 Related for: Iowa Traction Railway information

Request time (Page generated in 0.8645 seconds.)

Iowa Traction Railway

Last Update:

135°N 93.280°W / 43.135; -93.280 The Iowa Traction Railway Company (reporting mark IATR), formerly the Iowa Traction Railroad Company, is a class III shortline...

Word Count : 1306

List of countries by rail transport network size

Last Update:

electrified lengths of the following railways: Amtrak (735 km), Deseret Power Railway (53 km), Iowa Traction Railway (9 km), Long Island Rail Road (237...

Word Count : 2286

Interurban

Last Update:

Museum operate restored equipment on former interurban lines. The Iowa Traction Railway still operates freight service today using interurban equipment...

Word Count : 7595

List of Iowa railroads

Last Update:

(IANW) Iowa River Railroad (IARR) Iowa Southern Railway (ISRY) Iowa Traction Railroad (IATR) Keokuk Junction Railway (KJRY) Norfolk Southern Railway (NS)...

Word Count : 444

Traction engine

Last Update:

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...

Word Count : 4871

List of shortline railroads in the United States by state

Last Update:

Railroad AAR rep. mark Burlington Junction Railway BJRY Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway CIC Iowa Northern Railway IANR Iowa Traction Railway IATR...

Word Count : 31

Washington and Old Dominion Railroad

Last Update:

the line was renamed to the Iowa Traction Railway. The Iowa Traction Railway was operating the locomotive in Mason City, Iowa, in 2021, the locomotive's...

Word Count : 13848

Railroad electrification in the United States

Last Update:

to investors and renamed as Iowa Terminal. In 1987 the line was purchased once more and was renamed to Iowa Traction Railway (IATR) where it now operates...

Word Count : 5438

Rack railway

Last Update:

A rack railway (also rack-and-pinion railway, cog railway, or cogwheel railway) is a steep grade railway with a toothed rack rail, usually between the...

Word Count : 3734

British American Railway Services

Last Update:

included RMS Locotec, Hanson Traction, Weardale Railway and Dartmoor Railway. BARS also owned Devon & Cornwall Railways which was active from 2011 until...

Word Count : 108

List of Illinois railroads

Last Update:

Peoria Railway Peoria and Pekin Terminal Railway Peoria and Pekin Traction Company Peoria Railway Terminal Company Rock Island Southern Railway (RIS) Rockford...

Word Count : 853

DCRail

Last Update:

acquires Hanson Traction to boost UK portfolio". Rail. No. 655. 20 October 2010. p. 22. "British American takes over Hanson Traction". The Railway Magazine....

Word Count : 1144

China Railways QJ

Last Update:

in China, numbers 6988 and 7081 (both former Jitong Railway), were originally acquired by the Iowa Interstate Railroad and later donated to Central States...

Word Count : 1198

Locomotive

Last Update:

builders List of locomotives Locomotives in art Railway brakes Regenerative (dynamic) brakes Traction engine Train horn Vacuum brake World's largest locomotive...

Word Count : 6333

GE Evolution Series

Last Update:

Series, 4,400 hp, DC traction) replaced the Dash 9-44CW model in the General Electric catalogue. Primary users are BNSF Railway, CSX Transportation, and...

Word Count : 2811

List of streetcar systems in the United States

Last Update:

and 1925, petrol (gasoline) traction (?). Note for New York – City Island: Experimental monorail operated Bartow railway station – north end of City Island...

Word Count : 3820

List of interurban railways in North America

Last Update:

Line Quits". Electric Railway Journal. 51 (17): 827. April 27, 1918. Indiana Public Service Commission, Re Gary & Hobart Traction Company (No. 4802), October...

Word Count : 495

Omaha and Council Bluffs Railway and Bridge Company

Last Update:

Council Bluffs Railway and Bridge Company, known as O&CB, was incorporated in 1886 in order to connect Omaha, Nebraska with Council Bluffs, Iowa over the Missouri...

Word Count : 1050

List of common carrier freight railroads in the United States

Last Update:

River Railroad (IARR) Iowa Southern Railway (ISRY) Iowa Traction Railroad (IATR) Itawamba Mississippian Railway (IMR) Ithaca Central Railroad (ITHR)...

Word Count : 3180

Electric locomotive

Last Update:

long-distance services. The Victorian Railways and New South Wales Government Railways, which pioneered electric traction in Australia in the early 20th century...

Word Count : 7046

List of Michigan railroads

Last Update:

Michigan Railway Michigan Traction Company Michigan United Railways Mount Clemens and Lake Side Traction Company Muskegon Railway Muskegon Street Railway Muskegon...

Word Count : 714

Rockhill Trolley Museum

Last Update:

Committee (PCC) Car #6 and Iowa Terminal Railroad Snow Sweeper #3. The museum formerly operated under its corporate name, Railways to Yesterday. It changed...

Word Count : 337

Connecticut Trolley Museum

Last Update:

Nassau (New York) Electric Railway car 169 Oshawa Railway steeplecab 18 Iowa Southern Utilities Co. line car 1 Northern Ohio Traction & Light Co executive car...

Word Count : 741

Canadian Pacific Railway

Last Update:

Fairbanks Morse designs. CP was the first railway in North America to pioneer alternating current (AC) traction diesel-electric locomotives in 1984. In...

Word Count : 14245

PDF Search Engine © AllGlobal.net