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The Elgin and Belvidere Electric Company left Elgin from the end of the Edison Street line at Wing Street, going 36 mi (58 km) west through the small towns of Huntley and Marengo to Belvidere, and a 14-mile (23 km) run through connection to Rockford. With 9 passenger and 2 express cars they scheduled 19 trains each way with an hourly headway.
Elgin was opened by the Aurora, Elgin and Chicago Railway (AE&C) on May 23, 1903. [1] The AE&C became bankrupt in 1919, and was split into two divisions – the Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad (CA&E) to handle interurban affairs, and the Aurora, Elgin and Fox River Electric Company (AE&FRE) to deal with the Fox River Valley, in 1921.
Firstly, when the earliest railway was built through the area, it was found that this plot of land was the most suitable for a railway station, and the station was consequently also named "Elgin". For decades, this station provided the main connection between the people and produce of the valley, and the outside world.
In 1946, the Aurora, Elgin & Fox River Electric purchased a 45-ton General Electric diesel switcher for use on the line, and that diesel switcher was the Aurora, Elgin & Fox River Electric #5 that is now in the collection of the museum (see photo below and on the right). The locomotive handled all of the fright on the line until 1973, when the ...
These two companies, the Aurora, Wheaton & Chicago Railway and Elgin & Chicago Railway, were incorporated on February 24, 1899. [2] Only one day after their founding, a second group of Cleveland-based investors, led by the Pomeroy-Mandelbaum group, incorporated the Aurora, Wheaton, & Chicago Railroad Company. Pomeroy-Mandelbaum was the second ...
St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway: Marquette, Spring Valley and Northwestern Railroad: 1901 1907 Illinois Valley Railway (electric) Mattoon and Evansville Railroad: IC: 1900 1902 Illinois Central Railroad: Mercer County Bridge Company: MSTL: 1881 1885 Keithsburg Bridge Company: Michigan Air Line Railroad: 1869 1871 Chicago and ...
The Elgin operates under lease the line of the Chicago, Lake Shore & Eastern Railway Company, called herein the Eastern, which extends from South Chicago, Ill., to Gary and Cavanaugh, Ind., and the property of the Joliet & Blue Island Railway Company, herein called the Joliet, whose tracks are all located in and in the immediate vicinity of the ...
The Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway (reporting mark EJE) was a Class II railroad, making a roughly circular path between Waukegan, Illinois and Gary, Indiana.The railroad served as a link between Class I railroads traveling to and from Chicago, although it operated almost entirely within the city's suburbs, only entering Chicago where it served the U.S. Steel South Works on the shores of ...