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In 1837, the Illinois Internal Improvement Act was passed with funding for rail lines - the Illinois Central Railroad's Galena to Cairo line, and crossing it, the Northern Cross connecting Danville, Springfield, and Quincy and the Southern Cross from Mt. Carmel to Alton (in a bid to compete with St. Louis, Missouri).
Pages in category "Defunct Illinois railroads" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 270 total. ... Northern Cross Railroad; Northern ...
Northern Cross Railroad: CB&Q: 1849 1857 Quincy and Chicago Railroad: Northern Cross Railroad and Transportation Company: WAB: 1843 1847 Sangamon and Morgan Railroad: Northern Illinois Railroad: MILW: 1859 1866 Western Union Railroad: Northern Illinois Railway: CNW: 1884 1888 Chicago and North Western Railway: Northern Indiana Railroad: NYC ...
Northern Cross (pilgrimage), an annual pilgrimage in northern England and the England-Scotland border; Northern Cross, the section of the M50 motorway (Ireland), from Junctions 1 to 6, built in the late 1990s; Northern Cross Railroad, first railroad in Illinois; Northern Cross Radio Telescope at the Medicina Radio Observatory
In 1855 the Northern Cross Railroad, a predecessor to the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, was constructed through Macomb, leading to a rise in the town's population. On April 24, 1899, the Western Illinois State Normal School, currently Western Illinois University, was founded in Macomb.
The Illinois Zephyr and the Carl Sandburg trainsets continue to cross the Mississippi River to layover at the BNSF West Quincy railyard for servicing between runs. On October 30, 2006, a second round trip, the Carl Sandburg was added as part of the Midwest Regional Rail Initiative .
The northern lights are expected to be most visible in Illinois on Thursday, Oct. 10, into Friday, Oct. 11. How to view the northern lights The best time, of course, is after sundown.
1886 system map. The source of the Wabash name was the Wabash River, a 475-mile (764 km)-long river in the eastern United States that flows southwest from northwest Ohio near Fort Recovery, across northern Indiana to Illinois where it forms the southern portion of the Illinois-Indiana border before draining into the Ohio River, of which it is the largest northern tributary.