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Children wearing traditional dirndls at a folk festival in Vilshofen an der Donau (Bavaria), 2012. Traditional long-skirted dirndls from Lienz in Tyrol, Austria, 2015. A dirndl (German: [ˈdɪʁndl̩] ⓘ) is a feminine dress which originated in German-speaking areas of the Alps. It is traditionally worn by women and girls in some Alpine ...
The Cairo and Vincennes Railroad was a 19th-century American railroad that connected Cairo, Illinois, with Vincennes, Indiana. It was chartered by the state of Illinois in 1867 through the efforts of former American Civil War General Green B. Raum, who subsequently oversaw the planning and engineering of the proposed line.
Track gauge. 4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Chicago and North Western (reporting mark CNW) was a Class I railroad in the Midwestern United States. It was also known as the "North Western". The railroad operated more than 5,000 miles (8,000 km) of track at the turn of the 20th century, and over 12,000 miles (19,000 km) of track ...
Glencoe beaches were not integrated until 1942 when a court injunction allowed the sale of beach passes for the (formerly white-only) Park Avenue beach to the family that requested them, A.L. Foster, his wife, Mildred and their two sons who lived at 379 Jefferson. [5] [6] Glencoe Metra Station in 2012. Glencoe has a Village Manager form of ...
Track gauge. 4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Galena and Chicago Union Railroad (G&CU) was the first railroad constructed out of Chicago, intended to provide a shipping route between Chicago and the lead mines near Galena, Illinois. The railroad company was chartered on January 16, 1836, [1] but financial difficulties delayed ...
Offered for sale in 2022. 95 General Electric Co. 1,450 hp (1,080 kW) C-C: March 1963 34592 Originally, GE pattern GEX3341 [70] with Alco 6-251B prime mover. Purchased new. Converted to CLEAR 140 by Sygnet Rail Technologies with Cummins QSK45L prime mover in 2012-2013. Offered for sale in 2022. 96 General Electric Co. 1,450 hp (1,080 kW) C-C ...
Southern Illinois is a region of the U.S. state of Illinois comprising the southern third of the state, principally south of Interstate 70.Part of downstate Illinois, it is bordered by the two most voluminous rivers in the United States: the Mississippi below its connection with the Missouri River to the west and the Ohio River to the east and south, with the Wabash as a tributary.
Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad. The Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad (CA&E), known colloquially as the "Roarin' Elgin" or the "Great Third Rail", was an interurban railroad that operated passenger and freight service on its line between Chicago and Aurora, Batavia, Geneva, St. Charles, and Elgin, Illinois. The railroad also operated a small ...