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Regional Transportation Authority (Illinois) (2 C, 8 P) Pages in category "Intermodal transportation authorities in Illinois" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
The Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) is the financial and oversight body for the three transit agencies in northeastern Illinois; the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), Metra, and Pace, which are called Service Boards in the RTA Act. [1] RTA serves Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry and Will counties.
Fort Wayne was the center of the American light rail system, and boasted the only full cloverleaf in the world at "Transfer Corner", the intersection of Calhoun and Main. Despite the low cost - 25-mile trip to Bluffton cost 50 cents and took 52 minutes - ridership of the interurban system plummeted after a 1910 crash near Bluffton killed forty ...
In 1974, the Regional Transit Authority (RTA) was created to provide stability in the commuter rail system, as most private commuter companies in the area were beginning to fail. [4] In 1984, RTA created the Commuter Rail Service Board to help with planning an organized commuter rail system in the Chicago area. [ 4 ]
On New Year's Eve 1900, the Detroit Citizen's Street Railway, Detroit, Fort Wayne and Belle Isle Railway, Detroit Electric Railway and Detroit Suburban Railway merged to form the Detroit United Railway, as a result for the first time since 1865 all streetcar lines in the Detroit area were operated by one company and by August 1901 it had begun ...
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Conrail acquired the line in 1976, and later sold some of it to the Norfolk Southern Railway to relieve that company's ex-Nickel Plate Road main line. CSX Transportation acquired the entire line in the 1999 breakup of Conrail, and began to make improvements, including new crossing signals, paving crossings, and weeding the railroad.
Fort Wayne and Illinois Railroad: NKP: 1887 1887 New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad: Fort Wayne and Jackson Railroad: NYC: 1880 1976 Consolidated Rail Corporation, Hillsdale County Railway: Fort Wayne, Jackson and Saginaw Railroad: NYC: 1868 1879 Fort Wayne and Jackson Railroad: Fort Wayne, Muncie and Cincinnati Railroad: NKP: 1869 1881