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This category contains railroad companies that became part of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad system, usually through consolidation. Keokuk & Western Railroad Quincy, Omaha & Kansas City Railroad Iowa & St. Louis Railway
The Chicago Burlington and Quincy O-5 was a class of 36 4-8-4 "Northern" type steam locomotives built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1930 and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q) between 1936 and 1940 and operated by the CB&Q until the late 1950s.
ABSS may refer to: Alamance-Burlington School System, a school district; Administration of the Property of the Holy See, or Amministrazione dei Beni della Santa Sede in Italian; Agent-based social simulation, in social science; Automated Boxing Scoring System, an electronic computer-based scoring system for amateur boxing
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy 5632 was an O-5B class 4-8-4 “Northern” built in the CB&Q's shops in August 1940. It was used to pull mainline passenger and freight trains before it eventually became famous for pulling a plethora of excursion trains for the CB&Q's steam excursion program.
[3] [4]: 6–9 The first use of automatic block signalling in the United Kingdom was installed on the Liverpool Overhead Railway on its opening in 1893. Instead of track circuits, the system used a setup of trackside mechanical, and later, electrical instruments (both functionally similar to treadles ) that made contact with passing trains in ...
[4] In 1995 it acquired Combined Precision Components. [5] As it focused on distribution, its manufacturing operations were sold the same year. [3] In 1996 it bought the United States distributor, Premier Industrial Corporation, [6] and changed its name to Premier Farnell. [3] In 2001 the firm acquired Buck & Hickman, [7] a company which it ...
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy No. 4000, also known as Aeolus, is a preserved S-4a class 4-6-4 "Hudson" steam locomotive that was originally built by Baldwin in 1930 as S-4 locomotive No. 3002. It was primarily used to pull fast passenger trains before it was rebuilt by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad in 1937 to be re-classified as ...
The Alamance-Burlington School System [1] is a school district covering Alamance County and the city of Burlington in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It was created in July 1996 by merging the respective systems of the county and city. For the school year of 2020-2021 it had 23,148 students (NC's 14th largest system) [2] in 38 schools. [3] [4]