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4 ft 8. +. 1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad ( reporting mark BOCT) is a terminal railroad in the Chicago area, formerly giving various other companies access to (Chicago's) Grand Central Station. It also served to connect those railroads for freight transfers, and is now controlled by CSX ...
Chicago, Terre Haute and Southeastern Railway of Illinois: Chicago and Southwestern Railroad: B&O: 1890 1891 Chicago and Northern Pacific Railroad: Chicago and Springfield Railroad: IC: 1877 1902 Illinois Central Railroad: Chicago, Springfield and St. Louis Railroad: IC: 1883 1886 Litchfield and St. Louis Railway: Chicago, Springfield and St ...
The B&OSW absorbed the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad in 1893, giving the B&O a connection to St. Louis, Missouri, and finally the B&OSW disappeared into the rest of the system in 1900. Blockade of engines at Martinsburg, West Virginia, during strike in 1877 1876 B&O map. Ohio River Railroad from 1901; Pittsburgh Junction Railroad from 1902
CSX Transportation owns and operates a vast network of rail lines in the United States east of the Mississippi River.In addition to the major systems which merged to form CSX – the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, Louisville and Nashville Railroad, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and Seaboard Air Line Railroad – it also owns major lines in the Northeastern United ...
The Baltimore and Ohio and Chicago Railroad (B&O&C) was a subsidiary of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) that owned the line from Willard, Ohio to Chicago, Illinois. History. In 1869 the B&O leased the Sandusky, Mansfield and Newark Railroad (SM&N), which stretched north from Newark on the Central Ohio Railroad to Sandusky on Lake Erie.
The museum was founded in 1953 by ten people who joined to purchase Indiana Railroad interurban car 65. Originally called the Illinois Electric Railway Museum, the museum was located on the grounds of the Chicago Hardware Foundry in North Chicago. In 1961, it was renamed to the Illinois Railway Museum to reflect its expanding scope.
R.J. Corman Railroad/St Mary's Lines (RJSM) South Chicago and Indiana Harbor Railway (SCIH) Southern Indiana Railway (SIND) Southwind Shortline Railway (SWRX) Squaw Creek Southern Railroad (SCS) Toledo, Peoria and Western Railway (TPW) U S Rail Corporation (USRP): Operates the Kokomo Grain Company.
The Abraham Lincoln was a named passenger train operated by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from 1935 into the 1960s. The Abe Lincoln ran between Chicago and St. Louis on the B&O's subsidiary Alton Railroad. The train later passed to the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad, and then finally to Amtrak, which retained the name until 1978.