Ad
related to: fox river railroad history
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Aurora, Elgin & Fox River Electric (AE&FRE), was an interurban railroad that operated freight and passenger service on its line paralleling the Fox River.It served the communities of Carpentersville, Dundee, Elgin, South Elgin, St. Charles, Geneva, Batavia, North Aurora, Aurora, Montgomery, and Yorkville in Illinois.
The railroad line was built for the Aurora, Elgin & Fox River Electric interurban railroad in 1896, and it transported passengers up and down the Fox River until 1935. [4] In 1935, passenger service along the line was abandoned, and almost all of the line was torn up, with the exception of 3.5 mile of track in South Elgin, IL.
The Fox River Valley Railroad (reporting mark FRVR) was a short-lived railroad in eastern Wisconsin, US from 1988 to 1993 with about 214 miles of track, all of which was former Chicago and North Western Railway trackage. The line ran from Green Bay, Wisconsin, to the north side of Milwaukee. Owned by the Itel Rail Corporation, FRVR had problems ...
Having shed the Fox River Lines (an interurban which paralleled the Fox River), the reorganized company emerged from bankruptcy as the Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad on July 1, 1922, under the management of Dr. Thomas Conway Jr. A branch from Bellwood to Westchester opened October 1, 1926. [29]
The Chicago, Aurora and DeKalb Railroad was a 29-mile (47 km) interurban line which operated from 1906 to 1923 and connected the cities of Aurora and DeKalb, Illinois.The line made connections in Aurora with the Aurora, Elgin and Fox River Electric Company, the Chicago, Aurora and Elgin Railroad, and the Aurora, Plainfield and Joliet Railroad.
Fox Lake Railroad: MILW: 1859 1904 Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway: Fox Lake and Wisconsin River Railroad: MILW: 1857 1859 Fox Lake Railroad: Fox River Valley Railroad: FRVR 1988 1993 Fox Valley and Western Ltd. Fox Valley and Western Ltd. FVW 1993 2002 Wisconsin Central Ltd. Freeport, Dodgeville and Northern Railroad: IC: 1887 1888
The Kaukauna Locks Historic District is a lock and dam system in Kaukauna, Wisconsin, United States, that carried boat traffic around a rapids of the Fox River starting in the 1850s as part of the Fox–Wisconsin Waterway. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993 for its significance in engineering and transport. [1] [2]
St. Louis, Rock Island and Chicago Railroad: Ottawa, Oswego and Fox River Valley Railroad: CB&Q: 1852 1899 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad: Paducah and Illinois Railroad: PI CB&Q/ IC/ L&N: 1910 Still exists as a joint subsidiary of the BNSF Railway, Canadian National Railway, and CSX Transportation: Palatine, Lake Zurich and Wauconda ...