Editing Hooper, Nebraska (section)

==History==
Hooper was established in 1871, following construction of the [[Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad]] through the territory.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/counties/dodge/hooper/ | title=Hooper, Dodge County | publisher=University of Nebraska | work=Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies | accessdate=7 August 2014}}</ref> It was named for [[Samuel Hooper]], a  US congressman from [[Massachusetts]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=27429 | title=Profile for Hooper, NE | publisher=[[ePodunk]] | accessdate=7 August 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808061659/http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=27429 | archive-date=8 August 2014 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Chicago and North Western Railway Company|title=A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OspBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA84|year=1908|page=84}}</ref>

By the mid-1970s, the future of railroad service came into question.  The [[Chicago and North Western Transportation Company|Chicago & North Western]] (C&NW) (successor to the FE&MV RR) tracks were experiencing mildly declining freight traffic levels.  In spring of 1982, flooding from the Elkhorn River & nearby Pebble Creek damaged the track.  With the declining freight traffic levels & flooding damage, the C&NW promptly filed a request with the Interstate Commerce Commission to abandon the line.  Permission was granted later that year, leaving the tracks with a dismal future.

In 1986, railroad service was revived by the newly formed [[Fremont and Elkhorn Valley Railroad|Fremont & Elkhorn Valley Railroad]] (FEVR), which took ownership of the abandoned C&NW track.  However, a bridge north of Nickerson was deemed unsafe to cross in 2003; as a result, FEVR embargoed train service through Hooper.{{Citation needed|date=September 2017}} In summer 2021, the tracks were dismantled as part of an effort to construct a bike path following the old railroad route.