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The Butler Branch was a historic railroad line that operated in Indiana, USA.It ran between the city of Logansport on the Wabash River in north central Indiana and the namesake town of Butler near the Ohio border in northeastern Indiana.
Northern Indiana Railroad: Butler and Detroit Railroad: WAB: 1880 1881 Detroit, Butler and St. Louis Railroad: Cairo and Vincennes Railroad: NYC: 1872 1880 Cairo and Vincennes Railway: Cairo and Vincennes Railway: NYC: 1880 1881 Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railway: Cairo, Vincennes and Chicago Railway: NYC: 1889 1913 Cleveland, Cincinnati ...
Butler was incorporated as a town in 1866, and as a city in 1903. [6] On July 23, 1966, Butler was one of the end points of a record-setting speed run by a New York Central RDC-3, M-497 Black Beetle, modified with a pair of jet engines, as the rail line between it and Stryker, Ohio, was both straight and flat. The car reached a speed of 183.68 ...
Share of the Vandalia Railroad Company, issued 7. December 1910. The Vandalia Railroad Company was incorporated January 1, 1905, by a merger of several lines in Indiana and Illinois that formed a 471-mile railroad consisting of lines mostly west of Indianapolis.
Bellefontaine and Indiana Railroad: NYC: 1848 1864 Bellefontaine Railway: Belmont Central Railroad: B&O: 1907 1914 Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling Railway: Belpre and Cincinnati Railroad: B&O: 1845 1851 Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad: Bowling Green Railroad: B&O: 1874 1943 Toledo and Cincinnati Railroad: Butler and Detroit Railroad: WAB: 1880 1881
The leadership of the Underground Railroad in Madison was targeted and fined large sums of money, leading many to flee the state, including De Baptiste, Lott, and Harris. [10] Other conductors were shot and drowned by pro-slavery mobs. [6] Because of this violence and the imposed fines, Elijah and Mary decided to move to Lawrenceburg, Indiana.
Testing was performed on a 25 mi (40 km) length of the normal NYCR system – a virtually arrow-straight layout of regular existing track between Butler, Indiana, and Stryker, Ohio. On July 23, 1966, the train reached a speed of 184 miles per hour (296 km/h).
The Indiana Railroad was created on July 2, 1930, when Midland Utilities purchased the Union Traction Company of Indiana (UTC) and transferred ownership to the IR. Union Traction (UTC) was the largest interurban system in Indiana with 410 miles (660 km) of interurban trackage and 44 miles (71 km) of streetcar lines in Anderson, Elwood, Marion and Muncie.