Iowa, Chicago and Eastern Railroad

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An eastbound IC&E train passing Fairdale, Illinois, on May 29, 2005.

DM&E and IC&E combined route map as of 2002.

The Iowa, Chicago and Eastern Railroad (IC&E) (AAR reporting mark ICE) is a Class II railroad operating in the north central United States. The IC&E is jointly owned with the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad by Cedar American Rail Holdings, making the combined system the largest class II railroad in the US.

History

The ICE was formed by the parent company to take over the operations of the I&M Rail Link. The Illinois portion of the IC&E was in earlier times a part of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad.

Members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET), a division of the Teamsters, gained a contract with the railroad on January 24 2005. Railroad employees first organized under the labor union on December 17 2003.

Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (January 24 2005), [BLET gets first contract at IC&E]. Retrieved February 1 2005.

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