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Wyoming Tails and Trails
In the 1880's, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad continued its expansion with a western push across Nebraksa and into Dakota. By 1882 the line had been extended to Alliance, Nebraska. With the discovery of coal at Cambria, Wyoming, mining equipment had to be hauled westward by freighter from the railhead at Alliance. By 1889, the railroad had reached Edgemont, Dakota Territory. From there extensions pushed westward into Wyoming and northward to Deadwood. The extension into Wyoming ultimately became the mainline when in 1894 it reached Billings, Montana, and provided connections to the Pacific Coast via the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern lines.