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The Chicago Tunnel Company was the builder and operator of a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow-gauge railway freight tunnel network under downtown Chicago, Illinois. This was regulated by the Interstate Commerce Commission as an interurban even though it operated entirely under central Chicago, did not carry passengers, and was entirely underground. [ 1 ]
The State Street subway project was funded by New Deal programs established by Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression.In 1937, the city of Chicago successfully applied for a federal grant and loan from the Works Progress Administration to fund the construction of two subway tunnels, the first of which would be built beneath State Street and the second beneath Milwaukee Avenue and ...
Chicago Pedway map and legend at City of Chicago as a PDF document (2013) Chicago Pedway maps made with 2010 (edited 2011) City of Chicago data and Pedway segment information at wvaughan.org; Chicago Pedway online map and high quality printable (2008?) PDF map at spiegl.org; Subterranean City: A Tour of Chicago's Pedway (2004)
Fort George Tunnel, IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line (1 train), 2 miles of rock tunnel from 157th Street to Dyckman Street, the second-longest two-track tunnel in the country (after the Hoosac Tunnel) when completed in 1906. 14th Street Tunnel, BMT Canarsie Line (L train) under East River between Manhattan and Brooklyn
<p>Elon Musk's Boring Company, an organization that I'm still partially sure is a front for Musk's <a href="http://bgr.com/2017/02/16/elon-musk-boring-company-fallout ...
Printable version; In other projects ... Railway lines in Chicago (1 C, 44 P) ... Washington Street Tunnel (Chicago)
1 large and 1 small masonry arches: Opened: January 1, 1869 (public) August 12, 1890 (cable) Closed: 1953: Owner: City of Chicago: Operator: West Chicago Street RR. Chicago Union Transit Chicago Surface Lines Chicago Transit Authority: Traffic: 130 cars per hour max in each direction: Technical; Length: 1,605 ft (489 m) No. of lanes: 2 horse, 1 ...