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The Central Railroad Company of Indiana (reporting mark CIND) is a Class III short-line railroad that owns 92 miles (148 km) of track between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Shelbyville, Indiana, with trackage rights on CSX to Indianapolis, Indiana. CIND interchanges with CSX, Indiana & Ohio Railway, and Norfolk Southern in Cincinnati, and in North Bend ...
The Shelbyville post office has been in operation since 1823. [9] The city charter received at that time was destroyed in the City Hall fire on January 1, 1928. A railroad was built connecting Shelbyville to Indianapolis in the late 1830s, the first railroad in the state; it was later expanded to connect to Madison and Jeffersonville.
The Columbus, Chicago and Indiana Central Railway went bankrupt and was sold at foreclosure on January 10, 1883. The Chicago, St. Louis and Pittsburgh Railroad was incorporated in Indiana on March 14 and Illinois on March 15, and the former CC&IC was conveyed to the two companies on March 17. Operation by the PC&StL continued until April 1, 1883.
R.J. Corman Railroad/St Mary's Lines (RJSM) South Chicago and Indiana Harbor Railway (SCIH) Southern Indiana Railway (SIND) Southwind Shortline Railway (SWRX) Squaw Creek Southern Railroad (SCS) Toledo, Peoria and Western Railway (TPW) U S Rail Corporation (USRP): Operates the Kokomo Grain Company.
The Grover Center: Museum and Historical Society, formally known as the Louis H. and Lena Firn Grover Museum, is a local history museum located in Shelbyville, Indiana, USA, and is operated by the Shelby County Historical Society, whose headquarters are located in the building. The museum has three rotating galleries and three permanent ...
On January 27, 1836, an act of the Indiana General Assembly established Indiana's first railroad to actually be built. Construction began on the state-owned Madison and Indianapolis Railroad on September 16, 1836. After building only 27.80 miles (44.74 km) from Madison to Queensville (just northwest of North Vernon in Jennings County) by 1841 ...
Length. 347 miles (558 kilometres) The Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Western Railroad (reporting mark CIWN) [1] was established in 1915 as a reorganization of the Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Western Railway, which in turn had been created in 1902 as a merger of the Indiana, Decatur and Western Railway (ID&W) and the Cincinnati, Hamilton and ...
Track gauge. 4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) The James Whitcomb Riley was a passenger train that operated between Chicago, Illinois, and Cincinnati, Ohio, via Indianapolis, Indiana. Originally operated by the New York Central Railroad, it was taken over by Amtrak in 1971. Under Amtrak, it merged with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway 's George ...