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Chicago & North Western Cowboy Line Bartels Kratville Mills Penry Soft cover
Chicago & North Western Cowboy Line Bartels Kratville Mills Penry
Cowboy Line
Then Chicago & North Western
A History of the Longest Rail-to-Trail Project in America
Bartels, Kratville, Mills, Penry
Soft Cover
64 Pages
Copyright 1998
Contents
Introduction 5
Rails to Riches, Destiny to Decline 9
Bridging Pine Creek 23
Across the Niobrara 33
North Western Days at Long Pine 43
The Cowboy Hits the Trail 51
References 64
On March 31, 1992, the Chicago & North Western Railroad was granted permission by the Interstate Commerce Commission to discontinue operations on 319.7 miles of its track that meandered east to west across northern Nebraska. Severing this corridor meant an end to the only rail service between the northeast Nebraska city of Norfolk, recognized for its industry-related economic base, and the northwest Nebraska town of Chadron, known as both a cattle ranch supply center and site of a state-operated college. The expanses that lay between the two communities include some very dramatic changes in terrain. Farmland and hay meadows to the east give way to the Western Hemisphere's largest area of grass-covered sand dunes known as the Sandhills of north-central Nebraska. These in turn give way to the forested hills known as Pine Ridge near Chadron. With the entire region having a history and lifestyle to match the geography, it might come as no surprise that the interpolating rail corridor earned the nickname "the Cowboy Line" from those who rode its trains. But sentimental monickers aside, when the last rails and ties were yanked from the roadbed in late 1995, the longest railroad abandonment in the Cornhusker State had become reality.
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