Editing Boone, Iowa (section)

== Transportation ==
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Boone is located on [[U.S. Route 30 in Iowa|U.S. Route 30]]. The original [[Lincoln Highway]] ran through the center of town, but a new four-lane highway was built in the late 1960s that bypassed the center of Boone to the south. There is also a network of paved country roads radiating out in all directions.

Boone is served by the mainline of the [[Union Pacific Railroad|Union Pacific]], which purchased the [[Chicago & North Western Railroad]] (C&NW) in 1995. Boone was a division and crew change point on the railroad under the Chicago & North Western and some of that business remains today. There is a moderate-sized rail yard to the east of the downtown area. The locomotives no longer sound their horns in the town proper due to modifications to the various points where streets intersect with the rail line.

Boone was also the exact midpoint on the Fort Dodge, Des Moines & Southern Railroad, an electric interurban line converted to diesel in 1955 after a flood on the Des Moines River devastated the [[Fraser, Iowa|Fraser]] hydroelectric power plant that supplied power to the railroad. It connected with the C&NW downtown. It was purchased by the C&NW in 1968 and subsequently abandoned. The western part of the line to Fraser has been resurrected as the [[Boone and Scenic Valley Railroad]], a tourist line.

The [[Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad]] also ran a branch line into Boone from the southeast. It likewise connected with the C&NW. The line was trimmed back to [[Luther, Iowa|Luther]] in the late 1960s and completely abandoned a few years later.