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Enrique Creel's Chihuahua al Pacífico railroad completed the Chihuahua-Creel section. [8] In 1940, Mexico acquired the rights from Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway. [8] In May 1952, Mexico took possession of a line operated by Mexican Northwestern Railway. [8] In 1955, Mexico merged them as Ferrocarril Chihuahua al Pacifico, S.A. de C.V. [8]
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad: Eastern Illinois and St. Louis Railroad: C&EI: 1903 1905 Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad: Eldorado, Marion and Southwestern Railroad: MP: 1906 1913 Marion and Eastern Railroad: Electric City and Illinois Railway: 1889 1891 Madison, Illinois and St. Louis Railway: Elgin and State Line Railroad: CNW ...
Canadian National Railway; Central Illinois Railroad; Chicago and Illinois Western Railroad; Chicago Central and Pacific Railroad; Chicago, Fort Wayne and Eastern Railroad; Chicago Rail Link; Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad; Chicago Terminal Railroad; Chicago Union Station Company; Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad; Coffeen and ...
The IC was one of the oldest Class I railroads in the United States. The company was incorporated by the Illinois General Assembly on January 16, 1836. [4] Within a few months Rep. Zadok Casey (D-Illinois) introduced a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives authorizing a land grant to the company to construct a line from the mouth of the Ohio River to Chicago and on to Galena. [5]
The Iowa Division of the original Illinois Central Railroad began its service to Warren, Illinois in January 1854. By September 1854 the tracks ran to Scales Mound, Illinois and on October 31, 1854, the Illinois Central made it to Galena, Illinois. [3] On June 12, 1855 the tracks were expanded to East Dubuque, Illinois. [3]
Built in 1903, this was the railroad's largest workshop, sitting on a 900-acre site between the railroad's main line and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad’s Rock Island branch. After the closing in 1980, the workshop was sold to National Railway Equipment , and it remained a maintenance and refurbishment hub for the wider North ...
The Mexico North-Western Railway or Compañía del Ferrocarril Nor-Oeste de México was a railroad that operated in Mexico between Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua, via Nuevo Casas Grandes in the western portion of the state of Chihuahua. [1] Prior to 1909, it was known as the Rio Grande, Sierra Madre & Pacific Railway.
1918 map of the railroad. The Chicago and Illinois Western Railroad (reporting mark CIW) was an industrial switching railroad serving the west side of Chicago and southwest Cook County. From a connection with a now defunct north–south railroad line near 31st Blvd. and Western Ave. it went west along 33rd St. to Cicero.