St. Joseph and Grand Island Railroad

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The St. Joseph and Grand Island Railroad was created in about 1879 when the St. Joseph and Western Railroad built a line from Hastings, NE to Grand Island, NE. Upon completion of the line, the SJ&W was reorganized into the SJ&GI. Doniphan, NE was plotted in 1879 at about the halfway point between Hastings and Grand Island and was named for John Doniphan, an attorney for the railroad. The SJ&GI was essentially part of the Union Pacific Railroad for most of its existence. When the UP built a shorter cutoff between Hastings and Gibbon, NE in 1914, use of the SJ&GI tracks gradually declined. The line mostly was abandoned by 1989.

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