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.
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/