The Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Railroad was a railroad chartered to run from Cedar Rapids, Iowa to Council Bluffs, Iowa on the Missouri River. Under lease by the Chicago & North Western Railroad, it was the first railroad to reach Council Bluffs opposite Omaha Nebraska, and the eastern terminus of the First transcontinental railroad.[1] It was one of four railroads that were built as result of the Iowa Land Bill of 1856 that gave land grants for railroads.[2]