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The Chicago "L" (short for "elevated") [4] is the rapid transit system serving the city of Chicago and some of its surrounding suburbs in the U.S. state of Illinois.Operated by the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), it is the fourth-largest rapid transit system in the United States in terms of total route length, at 102.8 miles (165.4 km) long as of 2014, [1] [note 1] and the third-busiest rapid ...
Chicago and Atlantic Railway 1889 ad featuring The New York and Chicago Vestibule Limited 1910 map of the railroad. The Chicago and Atlantic Railway, later the Chicago and Erie Railroad, was a railway in the United States which existed from 1871 to 1941, and was an important connection between the Columbus, Ohio metropolitan area and Chicago, Illinois.
The first transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869. Railroads played a large role in the development of the United States from the Industrial Revolution in the Northeast (1820s–1850s) to the settlement of the West (1850s–1890s). The American railroad mania began with the founding of the first passenger and freight line in the country ...
The Illinois Central Railroad (reporting mark IC), sometimes called the Main Line of Mid-America, was a railroad in the Central United States. Its primary routes connected Chicago, Illinois, with New Orleans, Louisiana, and Mobile, Alabama, and thus, the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. Another line connected Chicago west to Sioux City, Iowa ...
Map of the Aurora Elgin and Chicago RR c 1912. Despite a malfunctioning power system, a group of nearly-untrained motormen, and only six pieces of operational rolling stock, the Aurora branch of the Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad opened on August 25, 1902. Fares were 25 cents one-way and 45 cents round-trip.
1997–99: Conrail assets sold to Norfolk Southern Railway and CSX Transportation. September 11, 2001: Terrorists destroy World Trade Center in New York and destroy part of the PATH system in the process. Full PATH service resumed November 23, 2003. 2015: Total rail traffic declined 2.5 percent to 28 million carloads.
The Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railway used its own depot before gaining access to 12th and State depot in 1882. The Chicago, Terre Haute and Southeastern Railway, later part of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad ("Milwaukee Road"), never had passenger service in the Chicago area. The Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee ...
Alton, Jacksonville and Peoria Railway. Bloomington, Pontiac and Joliet Electric Railway. Cairo and St. Louis Railway. Calumet and South Chicago Railway. Central Illinois Public Service Company. Centralia and Central City Traction Company. Chicago, Aurora and DeKalb Railroad. Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad.