Burlington and Missouri River Railroad

[1] By 1868 the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad operated 13 locomotives and 429 cars, mostly freight, with net earnings of $299,850 in 1867.

[3] That summer, the railroad reached Lincoln, the recently designated state capital.

[1] It later continued to lay rails westward and eventually joining with the Union Pacific Railroad on September 3, 1872, at Kearney; this had the effect of linking traffic from southern Nebraska to the rest of the continent.

[3] That same year it began advertising "millions of acres of cheap land" as an incentive to prospective settlers to Iowa and Nebraska.

At the time, it had begun laying tracks to Denver, Colorado; this line was finished by the CB&Q ten years later.