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The Waterbury Branch is a branch of the Metro-North Railroad's New Haven Line, running north from a junction in the Devon section of Milford to Waterbury, Connecticut. Originally built as the Naugatuck Railroad , it once continued north to Winsted .
St. Clair and Chicago Air Line Railroad: CN: 1872 1875 Michigan Air Line Railway: St. Clair River, Pontiac and Jackson Railroad: CN: 1872 1872 St. Clair and Chicago Air Line Railroad: St. Clair Tunnel Company: CN: 1886 2008 Grand Trunk Western Railroad: St. Clair and Western Railroad: NYC: 1906 1932 N/A St. Joseph, South Bend and Southern ...
The BNSF Line is a Metra commuter rail line operated by the BNSF Railway in Chicago and its western suburbs, running from Chicago Union Station to Aurora, Illinois through the Chicago Subdivision. In 2010, the BNSF Line continued to have the highest weekday ridership (average 64,600) of the 11 Metra lines. [ 3 ]
With the completion of the Waterbury Branch Signalization project upgrading capacity for future 30 minute service headways, Governor Lamont announced on November 14, 2021 that 7 new trains will be coming to the Waterbury Line in 2022 and the Derby-Shelton Train Station was a priority in getting new riders onto the line. [4]
In November 2011, Michigan was awarded $150 million to buy the Kalamazoo–Dearborn portion of the line from Norfolk Southern. Combined with a $196 million federal government grant announced the previous month to improve signaling and track quality, trains will be able to run at 110 mph (177 km/h) on 77% of the length of the Detroit–Chicago ...
Both Burlington Northern and Great Northern at the time also used to operate west from the Twin Cities before turning northwest in Willmar, Minnesota, to reach Fargo. Between 2009 and 2013, when BNSF suspended freight traffic between Fargo and Minot via Grand Forks because of overflows of Devils Lake , threatened to allow the rising waters to ...
These three railroads eventually merged into the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. The Illinois Zephyr is a descendant of the Kansas City Zephyr and American Royal Zephyr passenger train routes operated by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad from 1953 until 1968 and 1971, respectively.
Chicago, Burlington and Northern Railroad: Chicago Northern Railway: CNW: 1902 1903 Chicago and North Western Railway: Chicago and Northern Pacific Railroad: B&O: 1889 1896 Chicago Terminal Transfer Railroad: Chicago and Ohio River Railroad: B&O: 1873 1893 Peoria, Decatur and Evansville Railway: Chicago and Pacific Railroad: MILW: 1872 1900