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Rock Island Opens New Cedar Rapids Passenger Station
The Rock Island railroad debuts a new 500 Fourth St NE terminal on July 1 with a ticket office baggage room and waiting area. The old Union Station will be razed for a municipal lot after its closure. two trains will transfer to the new station, ending decades of Fourth Street rail traffic in downtown Cedar Rapids.
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New Rock Island
Rock Island Railroad
Fourth St. NE
Cedar Rapids
Rock Island
Union Station
Kinderknecht Construction Co
Walter T. Okerlund
Rock Island Road
C. H. Meyers
Okerlund
Chicago and
North Western
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
The
Evening Gazette
Marion
North Western ‘System
Beverly
Iowa
Fourth Street
City Planning
St. Louis
St. Paul
Milwaukee and Illinois Central
First and
Second Avenue
Rock Island and
Milwaukee Roads
Milwaukee
Clinton
Burlington, Cedar Rapids
Minnesota
Burlington
Waterloo
George Greene
Mississippi River
Dubuque
Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railroad
Illinois Central Railroad
Chicago and North Western
City
Otis
Milwaukee Road
Sioux Falls
Minneapolis
Decorah
Illinois Central
Manchester
Cedar Lake
Cedar Falls
New