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1880–1889 Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railway: Wabash 1885–1887 1880–1885 Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad: L&N 1904–1913 1885–1904, 1913–1969 1877–1885 Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway: CMStP&P 1874–1928 Cincinnati, Lafayette and Chicago Railroad: CIStL&C 1872–1880 Chicago and Pacific Railroad: WStL&P 1872–1879
The IC was one of the oldest Class I railroads in the United States. The company was incorporated by the Illinois General Assembly on January 16, 1836. [4] Within a few months Rep. Zadok Casey (D-Illinois) introduced a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives authorizing a land grant to the company to construct a line from the mouth of the Ohio River to Chicago and on to Galena. [5]
1880 Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railway: Champaign and Southeastern Railway: WAB: 1880 1903 Wabash Railroad: Charleston, Neoga and St. Louis Railroad: NKP: 1880 1881 Toledo, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad: Chesapeake and Ohio Railway: C&O, CO C&O 1921 1987 CSX Transportation: Chesapeake and Ohio Railway of Indiana: C&O: 1910 1934 ...
The Chicago and North Western (reporting mark CNW) was a Class I railroad in the Midwestern United States.It was also known as the "North Western".The railroad operated more than 5,000 miles (8,000 km) of track at the turn of the 20th century, and over 12,000 miles (19,000 km) of track in seven states before retrenchment in the late 1970s.
The Peoria and Pekin Union Railway (reporting mark PPU) is a switching and terminal railroad in Illinois that began operating in 1881 and they opened a roadhouse in 1882. [1] The railway managed hourly passenger travel, but ridership declined during the Great Depression and service was suspended on 7 November 1931.
Main lines: Rebirth of the North American railroads, 1970–2002 (Northern Illinois UP, 2003). Stover, John. History of the Illinois Central Railroad (1975) online; Stover, John. Iron Road to the West: American Railroads in the 1850s (1978) online; Stover, John. The Routledge historical atlas of the American railroads (1999) online; Ward, James ...
Railroad History Timeline 1880. Retrieved March 23, 2005. Reitwiesner, William Addams, The Ancestors of Julia Stimson Thorne. Retrieved October 11, 2005. Santa Fe Railroad (1945), Along Your Way, Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.
Grand Central Station was a passenger railroad terminal in downtown Chicago, Illinois, from 1890 to 1969.It was located at 201 West Harrison Street on a block bounded by Harrison, Wells and Polk Streets and the Chicago River in the southwestern portion of the Chicago Loop.