The Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern Railroad was planned by Louis Cass in 1895 to Connect Waterloo to Cedar Rapids and Waverly, and provide beltline service in Waterloo.
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The line was completed in 1914.  Features of this line included massive concrete arch structures, two over the Cedar River (Both destroyed by floods in 2008) and a good passenger service.
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From Waverly, it would head south until Cedar Falls where it would enter residential areas until leaving Waterloo.
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From here it would go through Gilbertville, Brandon, Urbana,  Center Point and Hiawatha before finally arriving in Cedar Rapids.
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The northern connections included Chicago Great Western (Des Moines-Oelwein), Illinois Central (Omaha-Chicago), and Chicago Rock Island & Pacific (Twin Cities-Burlington).
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Southern connections included the same Rock Island and a branch of the Illinois Central Line, a Rock Island line to Oelwein, 
the Chicago & Northwestern and Chicago, Milwaukee St. Paul & Pacific mainlines from Chicago to Omaha, and the Cedar Rapids Iowa City Railroad, another electric shortline.
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Passenger services lasted well into the 1950s, and freight was competitive. 
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For the Illinois Central and Rock Island, the line was a bonus.  Both their lines were filled up, so in 1958 the IC and RI teamed up to purchase the WCF&N and renamed it the Waterloo Railroad.
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Rock Island sold its portion to IC in 1968, and in 1985 almost all of the tracks were abandoned, with the exception of a small industrial lead in Cedar Falls.
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Today, the IC is owned by Canadian National, and the branch line serves only a handful of industries.  The remainder of the line is part of the Cedar Valley Nature Trail.