Ames & College Railway tracks running through campus.

Ames & College Railway tracks running through campus.

The Ames & College Railway (The Dinkey) tracks are running through campus. Various campus buildings including the Marston Water Tower, Beardshear Hall (Central Building) and the Campanile are in the distance. Along both sides of the railroad tracks are large areas of land enclosed with fences.

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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