Ames & College Railway locomotive and two cars, 1898.

Ames & College Railway locomotive and two cars, 1898.

The Ames & College Railway (The Dinkey) locomotive and two cards are moving past several frame buildings.

The Ames & College Railway, better known as the Dinkey, provided transportation between the City of Ames, Iowa and the Iowa Agricultural College (Iowa State University).� As a joint venture of Ames and the College, the Dinkey began operating on July 4, 1891. The Ames & College Railway was sold to the Fort Dodge, Des Moines and Southern Railroad in 1907. That year the Dinkey was replaced with an electric streetcar, known as the interurban.

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1898

2012-10-29

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