Editing Victor, Iowa (section)

===Railroad===
[[File:Steam Engine in Victor Iowa.jpg|thumb|Steam locomotive in front of the first grain elevator in Victor, Iowa.]]

The first railroad to reach Victor was the Mississippi and Missouri Railroad (M&M Railroad) which arrived in 1862. Chartered in 1853, the M&M was Iowa's first railroad. It was created to connect Davenport on the Mississippi River to Council Bluffs on the Missouri River. It was the first railroad west of the Mississippi to be connected by a bridge to the East and it played a significant role in the development of the first transcontinental railroad.

The Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Railroad, under lease to the Chicago & North Western, however, was the first to actually reach Council Bluffs. Thomas C. Durant, vice president of the Union Pacific Railroad, held stock in both railroads and was accused of corruption in manipulating the railroads' stock prices and operating as a petty tyrant. <ref>THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD | ARTICLE Thomas Clark urant[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/tcrr-durant/]</ref>

The Rock Island Line bought the M&M on July 9, 1866. <ref>The History of Iowa County, Iowa - Union historical Company, Birdsall, Williams & Company 1881[https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_History_of_Iowa_County_Iowa/G3wUAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA556&printsec=frontcover&dq=victor p 556] </ref>