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The first New York-Chicago route was provided on January 24, 1853 with the completion of the Toledo, Norwalk and Cleveland Railroad to Grafton, Ohio on the Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad. The route later became part of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, owned by the New York Central Railroad. [1]
Metra (reporting mark METX) is the primary commuter rail system [a] in the Chicago metropolitan area serving the city of Chicago and its surrounding suburbs via the Union Pacific Railroad, BNSF Railway, and other railroads. The system operates 243 stations on 11 rail lines. [4] It is the fourth busiest commuter rail system in the United States ...
The line from Lamberts Point to Canal Drive, Norfolk was separated from the Norfolk District and became a new rail line called Norfolk Terminal. The Norfolk District is part of the Lamberts Point to Roanoke rail corridor. At one time the line's original name was restored as a timetable name and the line was grouped with the Norfolk Terminal in ...
The New York Central Railroad (reporting mark NYC) was a railroad primarily operating in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The railroad primarily connected greater New York and Boston in the east with Chicago and St. Louis in the Midwest, along with the intermediate cities of Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit, Rochester and Syracuse.
Lake Erie and Western Railroad: NKP: 1887 1923 New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad: Lake Erie and Western Railway: NKP: 1879 1886 Lake Erie and Western Railroad: Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway: NYC: 1869 1914 New York Central Railroad: Lee County Railway: CNW: 1906 1910 Chicago and North Western Railway: LeRoy and Eastern ...
The Kankakee Belt Route is the nickname for the Illinois Division of the New York Central Railroad, which extended from South Bend, Indiana, through Kankakee, Illinois, and westward to Zearing, Illinois. This line was sometimes referred to as the "3 I Line", in reference to a corporate predecessor, the "Indiana, Illinois & Iowa Railroad".
The Chicago "L" (short for "elevated") [4] is the rapid transit system serving the city of Chicago and some of its surrounding suburbs in the U.S. state of Illinois.Operated by the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), it is the fourth-largest rapid transit system in the United States in terms of total route length, at 102.8 miles (165.4 km) long as of 2014, [1] [note 1] and the third-busiest rapid ...
New York Central and Hudson River Railroad: New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad: NKP NKP 1887 1964 Norfolk and Western Railway: New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railway: NKP: 1881 1887 New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad: New York City and Northern Railroad: NYC: 1878 1887 New York and Northern Railway: New York and Coney Island ...