Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad: PRR: 1853 1856 Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad: Fox River Valley Railroad: CNW: 1852 1858 Elgin and State Line Railroad: Franklin and Waverly Railway: CB&Q: 1908 1917 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad: Fredonia and Reeds Railroad: IC: 1914 1946 Illinois Central Railroad: Freeport, Dodgeville ...
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 Railroad: LS&MS 1866–1869 1855–1866 Chicago, St. Paul and Fond du Lac ...
In the United States, railroads are designated as Class I, Class II, or Class III, according to size criteria first established by the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) in 1911, and now governed by the Surface Transportation Board (STB). The STB's current definition of a Class I railroad was set in 1992, that being any carrier earning annual ...
This article is a list of important rail yards in geographical order. These listed may be termed Classification, Freight, Marshalling, Shunting, or Switching yards, which are cultural terms generally meaning the same thing no matter which part of the world's railway traditions originated the term of art.
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.
Its predecessor, the Rock Island and La Salle Railroad Company, was incorporated in Illinois on February 27, 1847, and an amended charter was approved on February 7, 1851, as the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad. Construction began in Chicago on October 1, 1851, and the first train was operated on October 10, 1852, between Chicago and Joliet ...
The Belt Railway Company of Chicago (reporting mark BRC), headquartered in Bedford Park, Illinois, is the largest switching terminal railroad in the United States. It is co-owned by the six Class I railroads of the United States — BNSF, Canadian National, CPKC (the BRC's north–south main line's northern terminus is, like the Indiana Harbor Belt, the Milwaukee District West Line in Chicago ...
Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad: Chicago–Milwaukee [1930] 1929–1933 Badger State Express: Chicago & North Western: Chicago–Minneapolis [1919] 1892–1936 Baltimore Day Express: Pennsylvania: Buffalo, New York-Washington, D.C. [1962] 1958-1968 Baltimore-Washington Night Express: Baltimore & Ohio, Central Railroad of New Jersey ...