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Englewood Railway was a logging railroad on northern Vancouver Island, Canada. Headquartered in Woss, British Columbia, the line ran 90 km (56 mi) from Vernon Lake, through Woss, and past Nimpkish Lake Provincial Park to Beaver Cove. It was the last operating logging railroad in North America.
Englewood as a name is a derivation of the local sawmill company's name, Wood & English Logging company. The name survives today as that of the Englewood Railway, the last logging railroad operating in North America, which runs from Beaver Cove to Vernon camp for a total length of 84 miles. [4]
Englewood station, commonly referred to as Little Englewood Station, is a former train station in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The station served as a stop for the Erie Railroad , Monon Railroad , Wabash Railroad , Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad , and Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad . [ 3 ]
Railways that were not common carriers did not require a charter under the Railway Act since they were used primarily for the owners' own purposes, mainly logging and mining. American railroads always operated in Canada under charters of subsidiary railways even though most had equipment lettered only for the parent company.
It is the northern terminus of the Englewood Railway, which is named via that of the Wood & English Logging Company, whose former logging camp, now abandoned, was Englewood, on the other side of Beaver Cove from today's community.
The numerous forest railway operations in Romania were closed, with a few exceptions, by the 1990s. In Western Europe there are very few which are even preserved as museum railways . In Asia and Oceania (Australia and New Zealand) the history and fate of logging tramways/forest railways is similar to Europe, with most lines either converted to ...
Beaumont, Sour Lake and Western Railway [1] Boston and Albany Railroad (B&A) Boston and Maine Corporation (BM) Buffalo Bayou, Brazos & Colorado Railway [2] Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway (BCR&N) Burlington Northern Railroad (BN) Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR) Central of Georgia Railway; Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR)
Englewood Union Station was a major rail junction and passenger depot in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.Four railroads served the station in its prime – the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, the New York Central Railroad, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, which operated over the New York Central via trackage rights.