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2. Thrall Car Manufacturing Company - Wikipedia

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   The plant was served by Union Pacific and Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway. Both of the Chicago Heights facilities have been redeveloped. Cartersville, Georgia plant. Still owned by Trinity Industries. Clinton, Illinois plant. Harvey, Illinois, Parts Depot. Sometimes described as Phoenix, Illinois. Winder, Georgia plant. This plant operated with ...

3. Union Stock Yards - Wikipedia

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   Panorama of the beef industry in 1900 by a Chicago-based photographer 1905 International Live Stock Exposition catalogue Hog hoist, circa 1909. The area and scale of the stockyards, along with technological advancements in rail transport and refrigeration, allowed for the creation of some of America's first truly global companies led by entrepreneurs such as Gustavus Franklin Swift and Philip ...

4. List of Illinois railroads - Wikipedia

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   Chicago Rail Link: La Salle and Chicago Railroad: B&O: 1867 1873 Chicago and Great Western Railroad: Lake Erie and Mississippi Railway: NKP: 1884 1885 Lake Erie and Western Railway: Lake Erie and Western Railroad: NKP: 1887 1923 New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad: Lake Erie and Western Railway: NKP: 1879 1886 Lake Erie and Western Railroad

5. National Railway Equipment - Wikipedia

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   National Railway Equipment Company (reporting mark NREX) is an American railroad equipment rebuilding, leasing, and manufacturing company, headquartered in Mt. Vernon, Illinois. NREC sells new and rebuilt locomotives to railroad companies worldwide, with an emphasis on the North American market.

6. Chicago Junction Railway - Wikipedia

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   In December 1865, the new Union Stock Yards and railroad opened, [3] the latter beginning at the Illinois Central near 43rd Street and heading west, largely along 40th Street, to the Chicago and Great Eastern, and then turning north to parallel the latter company's line in Campbell Avenue until it reached the Chicago and North Western Railway ...

7. New Holland Secondary - Wikipedia

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   The New Holland Secondary is a rail line that runs from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to New Holland, Pennsylvania, and is owned and operated by Norfolk Southern Railway. It is 12 miles long, single tracked , [ 1 ] and originally ran from Lancaster to Downingtown, Pennsylvania , but all track between New Holland and Downingtown has since been ...

8. Nickel Plate Road - Wikipedia

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   The Seney Syndicate, headed by banker George I. Seney, met at Seney's New York City bank and organized the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railway Company on February 3, 1881. The original proposal for the NYC&StL was a 340-mile (550 km) railroad west from Cleveland, Ohio, to Chicago, Illinois, with a 325-mile (523 km) branch to St. Louis ...

9. Howard Yard - Wikipedia

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   The Howard Yard is a CTA rail yard in the Rogers Park neighborhood on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois, on the border with Evanston, Illinois. It is the largest rail yard of the CTA, [1] and stores cars from the Yellow, Red, and Purple Lines of the Chicago Transit Authority. Currently, 5000-series railcars are stored here. [2]