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/