Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern (DME)

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The Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad (DME), a Class 2 regional subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway, began operations in September 1986 over former Chicago and North Western tracks in South Dakota and southern Minnesota in the Northern Plains of the U.S. with portions extending into Wyoming, Nebraska and Iowa.

The DM&E eventually acquired the assets of the I&M Rail Link railroad in 2002 and renamed it the Iowa, Chicago and Eastern Railroad. DM&E then combined its management and dispatching duties with the I.C.E’s under the holding company of Cedar American Rail Holdings. After all was said and done, the newly combined system directly connected with Chicago through Iowa to Kansas City, Minneapolis-St. Paul and as far west as Rapid City, South Dakota with smaller branches extending into portions of Wisconsin, Wyoming and Nebraska.

 

Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern (DME)