RECORD
Ames & College Railway (Ames, Iowa)
- URI:
- https://digital.lib.iastate.edu/isulv/items/isun1150.html
- Preferred form:
- Ames & College Railway (Ames, Iowa)
- Alternative forms:
- Dinkey (Ames, Iowa)
- Term type:
- Authority Corporate Name
- Vocabulary:
- Iowa State University names
- Language of term:
- eng
- Start date:
- 1890
- End date:
- 1906
- Definition:
- Preferred form of name for use in Iowa State University Library metadata.
- Usage:
- Use this name to describe resources by or about the company that operated the commuter train known as the Dinkey that ran between Ames and the Iowa State College. Review and assign related terms as appropriate.
- History:
- Term added to ISULV, 2025-12-19. Based on the sources cited, Metadata Services recommends this form of the name over other variants.
- Associated locations:
- Iowa--Ames
- Related terms:
- Hub (Ames, Iowa)
- Source:
- Photograph of the Dinkey tracks as they run west past the Theater Workshop and Landscape Architecture, 1900? (Ames & College Railway) https://n2t.net/ark:/87292/w94b2xc2t; Iowa State University campus and its buildings, 1859-1979, 1980 (Ames & College Railway) https://n2t.net/ark:/87292/w9wc4p
- Publisher:
- Iowa State University. Library
- Rights:
- http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/1.0/