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This ship served as USS Great Northern in 1917–1919. The ship was reacquired by the Navy from the War Department 3 August 1921 and commissioned 11 August as Great Northern (AG-9). On 19 November 1921, Great Northern ' s name was changed by Presidential order to Columbia to honor a name long famous in Navy annals
Michigan City, Indiana: Reporting mark: CSS: Locale: Northern Indiana: Dates of operation: 1925 () – Predecessor: Chicago Lake Shore and South Bend Railway: Technical; Track gauge: 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge: Length: 182 miles (293 km) Other; Website: www.southshorefreight.com
The South Shore Line (reporting mark NICD) is an electrically powered commuter rail line operated by the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District (NICTD) between Millennium Station in downtown Chicago, Illinois and the South Bend Airport station in South Bend, Indiana, United States. The name refers to both the physical line and the ...
Michigan City is a city in LaPorte County, Indiana, United States. It had a population of 32,075 at the 2020 census . Located along Lake Michigan in the Michiana region, the city is about 45 miles (72 km) east of Chicago and is 40 miles (64 km) west of South Bend .
Michigan City and Indianapolis Railroad: NKP: 1870 1888 Lake Erie and Western Railroad: Michigan Southern Railroad: MSO 1996 2001 Elkhart and Western Railroad, Kendallville Terminal Railway: Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad: NYC: 1855 1869 Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway: Midland Railway: NYC/ PRR: 1885 1891 Chicago and ...
The Great Northern Railway is considered to have inspired (in broad outline, not in specific details) the Taggart Transcontinental railroad in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. [26] The song Great Northern by the Western band Riders In The Sky featured on their 2002 album Ridin' The Tweetsie Railroad describes a journey along the Great Northern ...
The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, established in 1833, and sometimes referred to as the Lake Shore, was a major part of the New York Central Railroad's Water Level Route from Buffalo, New York, to Chicago, Illinois, primarily along the south shore of Lake Erie (in New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio) and across northern Indiana.
To facilitate this process, they bought the Joliet and Northern Indiana Railroad in 1851. Thus they reached Michigan City, Indiana, by 1850 and finished the line to Kensington, Illinois, (now a south Chicago neighborhood) in 1852, using Illinois Central trackage rights to downtown Chicago.