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The Great Train Story is a 3,500-square-foot (330 m 2) HO scale model railroad display located in the Transportation Zone of Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. It explains the story of modern-day rail transportation in a 2,206-mile (3,550 km) journey from Seattle, Washington , through several plains states en route to Chicago, Illinois .
The Illinois Railway Museum (IRM, reporting mark IRMX) is the largest railroad museum in the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is located in the Chicago metropolitan area at 7000 Olson Road in Union, Illinois , 55 miles (89 km) northwest of downtown Chicago .
Sketch of Hill in 1889, the year after he married Maryhill Stonehenge replica and war memorial.. Samuel Hill (13 May 1857 – 26 February 1931), [1] was an American businessman, lawyer, railroad executive, and advocate of good roads.
Operational at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois EMD demonstrator unit [17] 17597 Rock Island 4506 October 1952 GP7R Chicago and North Western Transportation Company; Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad - Operational at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois [18] 18707 Illinois Terminal 1605 August 1953 GP7
Led by the Alton, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad and the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, a consortium of nine railroad companies (hence the "Union" name) acquired the 320-acre (1.3 km 2) marshland area in southwest Chicago for US$100,000 in 1864. [20] The stockyards were connected to the city's main rail lines by 15 miles (24 km) of ...
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway: PRR 1861–1869 1858–1861 St. Louis, Alton and Chicago Railroad: Chicago & Alton 1857–1862 Joliet and Chicago Railroad / Chicago and Mississippi Railroad: St.LA&C 1856–1857 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad: BN: 1881–1970 1856–1881 1855–1856 Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana ...
The rail line used by the Mid-Continent Railway Museum is a spur off the original Chicago and North Western Railway mainline. With the development of the Illinois Iron mine in early 1903, the C&NW sent a team of engineers on July 8, 1903, to survey a route to the iron fields.
The Electroliners are a pair of streamlined interurban trainsets built by the St. Louis Car Company in 1941. Initially numbered 801–802 and 803–804, they were operated by the Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad from 1941 to 1963, followed by the Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company (later SEPTA) from 1964 to 1978.