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Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway: PRR 1861–1869 1858–1861 St. Louis, Alton and Chicago Railroad: Chicago & Alton 1857–1862 Joliet and Chicago Railroad / Chicago and Mississippi Railroad: St.LA&C 1856–1857 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad: BN: 1881–1970 1856–1881 1855–1856 Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana ...
b Station remained in service on the Chicago Aurora and Elgin after the "L" withdrew service. c Station opened on the Aurora Elgin and Chicago Railway prior to the start of "L" service. March 11, 1905, is the day "L" service began at this station. d Station opened on the Milwaukee Road's Evanston branch prior to the start of "L" service. May 16 ...
New Hampshire's deadliest rail disaster to date [72] 1908 Metz Fire and derailment, Metz Township, Michigan; 26 killed [73] [74] 1909 The Chicago Lake Shore and South Bend Railway wreck, Porter County, Indiana; 12-14 killed plus ~40 injured [75] 1909 Southern Railway derailment, Reedy Fork threstle, North Carolina; 14 killed plus 25 injured [76]
It is the largest rail yard of the CTA, [1] and stores cars from the Yellow, Red, and Purple Lines of the Chicago Transit Authority. Currently, 5000-series railcars are stored here. [2] It is adjacent to Howard station. The yard was opened in 1919 [3] and gradually replaced the functions of Wilson Yard, until the latter was destroyed by fire in ...
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The district consists of the six train stations at 91st, 95th, 99th, 107th, 111th and 115th Streets along the Rock Island District commuter line of Metra. The stations were built between 1889 and 1945 by various architects. In 2017, the 115th Station suffered a devastating fire that resulted in its demolition.
In 1903, the Chicago City Council passed a measure requiring the 40th Street line be elevated as part of a larger effort to remove grade crossings from Chicago railroads; this meant that the South Side Elevated Railroad took over all operations from the Illinois Central, while the Chicago Junction Railroad owned the land and the structures. The ...
St Bedes Junction rail crash; Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne derailment; SakuragichÅ train fire; Semnan–Damghan train collision; Sofia – Kardam train fire; Stéblová train disaster; Stonehaven derailment; Strømsveien tram fire; Summit Tunnel fire