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The Illinois Terminal Railroad Company (reporting mark ITC), known as the Illinois Traction System until 1937, was a heavy duty interurban electric railroad with extensive passenger and freight business in central and southern Illinois from 1896 to 1956.
The Illinois Terminal began teasing the new streamliners in 1947, but did not announce the order until May 1948. Its original plan was to place all three in service between St. Louis and Peoria. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The first new train in service was the City of Decatur , which began operating between St. Louis, Missouri and Decatur, Illinois (not ...
Illinois Terminal was built with funds provided by the Federal Transit Administration, Illinois Department of Transportation, the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District and the city of Champaign, [2] and was named for the Illinois Terminal Railroad, an electric interurban line that ran from Champaign, and at one time extended as far as St. Louis.
The Terminal Railroad Association is owned by [2] BNSF Railway, Canadian National Railway (Illinois Central Railroad until 1999), CSX Transportation, Norfolk Southern Railway, and Union Pacific Railroad. All own one-seventh of the railroad except UP, which owns three-sevenths. The Terminal Railroad also connects with the Canadian Pacific Kansas ...
The Illinois Traction System Mackinaw Depot is a former in use 1909 to 1953 Illinois Terminal Railroad interurban passenger depot in Mackinaw, Illinois that still stands. The Illinois Terminal Railroad (from 1896 to 1937 known as the Illinois Traction System) ran an over head trolley wire powered railroad from Peoria on the north to St. Louis on the south with branches to Champaign and Urbana.
Illinois Terminal Railroad: Illinois–Missouri Terminal Railway: ITC ITC: 1954 1956 Illinois Terminal Railroad: Illinois Northern Railroad: IN ATSF: 1901 1975 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway: Illinois Parallel Railroad: CNW: 1851 1853 Chicago and Milwaukee Railroad: Illinois RailNet: IR 1997 2005 Illinois Railway: Illinois River Railroad ...
In 1854, the first rail lines in the region were laid 2 miles west of Urbana by the Illinois Central Railroad.The city of Urbana initially wanted nothing to do with the new railroad economy, so a new city, originally named West Urbana, was created to help serve the needs of the railroad.
The Belt Railway Company of Chicago (reporting mark BRC), headquartered in Bedford Park, Illinois, is the largest switching terminal railroad in the United States. It is co-owned by the six Class I railroads of the United States — BNSF, Canadian National, CPKC (the BRC's north–south main line's northern terminus is, like the Indiana Harbor Belt, the Milwaukee District West Line in Chicago ...