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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 ...
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.
Butler transformed Irvington into a college community. The campus grew in the southwest corner of Irvington, between the Pennsylvania Railroad and the B&O Railroad tracks. Buildings at the campus eventually included the Main Building (1875), Science Building (1892), Women's Dorm (1880s), Bona Thompson Memorial Library (1903, later the Bona ...
Oct. 8—Brunswick hosted a record-breaking Railroad Days festival Sunday as thousands came to the city to ride trains, learn about the city's history and spend a nice, fall day with their families.
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Butler, Marvin Benjamin (1914) My story of the Civil War and the Underground Railroad, United Brethren Publishing Establishment, Huntington, Ind. Goodspeed, Weston A.; Indiana Historical and Biographical Atlas, F.A. Battey and Company Publishers, Chicago, 1882.