June 23, 1903 – The Daily Iowa State Press announces “Work on Inter-urban Progressing Rapidly”.

As the new century began (1903), the citizens of Cedar Rapids and Iowa City are truly excited as the construction of the Dows & Smith Electrified Interurban Railway – later known as the Cedar Rapids & Iowa City Railway (CRANDIC) Interurban – finally began. By June 1903, local newspapers were reporting that the Interurban would be transporting customers between Iowa City and Cedar Rapids by the time “the snow flies”. But alas, Christmas 1903 came and went – and, you guessed it, no Interurban!

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