As you all can tell, I?m a detail person and the CB&Q didn?t exist as a
corporation until February 14, 1855! Trains didn?t operate to East
Burlington until March 17, 1855, and then they were CB&Q trains operating
over CB & Q (the old Chicago & Aurora), the Central Military Tract and
Peoria & Oquawka trackage. Freight cars and passengers were ferried across
the Mississippi until the first Burlington bridge was completed in 1868.
If you?ll double check, the words ?in Iowa? were never a part of the
corporate name. Since the B&MRRR was the original corporation, they simply
added the ?in Nebraska? to identify the new corporation. I know that after
the adoption of the Burlington Route herald, the B&MRR in Nebr. was used as
sub-lettering in the herald, but I?ve never seen B&MRR in Ia. used in that
manner.
Dave
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