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In recognition of their efforts, Amtrak gave its "Champions of the Rails" award to the Crawfordsville High School class of 2006. [5] The students spoke to Amtrak officials in Chicago and also travelled to Washington, D.C., to address members of the National Association of Railroad Passengers and of the United States Congress. [citation needed]
The Indianapolis and Frankfort Railroad (Ben Davis north to Frankfort) opened in 1918 as the last new main line railroad in Indiana, completing the PRR's route between Chicago and southern Indiana. [2] The line passed through mergers and takeovers into Conrail; in the 1999 split of Conrail it was assigned to CSX.
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The line was double-tracked for much of its length, serving the coal region of southern Illinois, and as a passenger route for the Pennsylvania Railroad's Blue Ribbon named trains, The St Louisan, the Jeffersonian, and the Spirit of St. Louis. [3] The main north–south route ran from Terre Haute to Logansport and then to on to South Bend.
The Indiana, Bloomington and Western Railway was a railroad that once operated in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio.. Its immediate predecessor, the Indianapolis, Bloomington and Western Railway, was formed on July 20, 1869, from the merger of the Indianapolis, Crawfordsville and Danville Railroad with the Danville, Urbana, Bloomington and Pekin Railroad. [1]
Indiana Rail Road, Indiana Hi-Rail Corporation: Illinois and Indiana Railroad: IC: 1899 1906 Indianapolis Southern Railroad: Indiana Railway: NYC: 1887 1887 Indiana and Western Railway: Indiana Railway: C&EI: 1886 1886 Chicago and Indiana Coal Railway: Indiana Railway: GTW: 1880 1880 Chicago and Grand Trunk Railway: Indiana, Bloomington and ...
The Evansville and Crawfordsville Railroad Company was Evansville, Indiana's first railroad company. It was first chartered in 1853 by William D. Griswold , a lawyer in Terre Haute, Indiana . It was renamed Evansville and Terre Haute Railroad in 1877.
Amtrak Station located behind the historic station, now a meeting facility. In 1813, Williamson Dunn, Henry Ristine, and Major Ambrose Whitlock, U.S. Army, noted that the site of present-day Crawfordsville was ideal for settlement, surrounded by deciduous forest and potentially arable land, with water provided by a nearby creek, later named Sugar Creek, that was a southern tributary of the ...