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Englewood Railway was a logging railroad on northern Vancouver Island, Canada. Headquartered in Woss, British Columbia, the line ran 90 km (56 mi) from Vernon Lake, through Woss, and past Nimpkish Lake Provincial Park to Beaver Cove. It was the last operating logging railroad in North America.
S. San Bernardino–Riverside Line; San Dimas Line; San Fernando Line; San Francisco and Alameda Railroad; San Francisco and Oakland Railroad; San Joaquin Valley and Yosemite Railroad
Englewood as a name is a derivation of the local sawmill company's name, Wood & English Logging company. The name survives today as that of the Englewood Railway, the last logging railroad operating in North America, which runs from Beaver Cove to Vernon camp for a total length of 84 miles. [4]
This was often done by a major railway such as Canadian Pacific Railway or Grand Trunk Railway, but the true interests were kept hidden to keep attention away from the efforts of competing major railways to gain access to another's territory. In other instances local interests wanted a railway to connect their community with the main line of a ...
The numerous forest railway operations in Romania were closed, with a few exceptions, by the 1990s. In Western Europe there are very few which are even preserved as museum railways . In Asia and Oceania (Australia and New Zealand) the history and fate of logging tramways/forest railways is similar to Europe, with most lines either converted to ...
Englewood station, commonly referred to as Little Englewood Station, is a former train station in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The station served as a stop for the Erie Railroad , Monon Railroad , Wabash Railroad , Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad , and Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad . [ 3 ]
The railroad of Englewood Connecting Railway Company, herein called the Englewood Connecting Railway, is a single-track, standard-gauge railroad, 2.339 miles in length, extending from a connection with the Panhandle to a connection with the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway Company, all within the city of Chicago, Ill.
Englewood Union Station was a major rail junction and passenger depot in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.Four railroads served the station in its prime – the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, the New York Central Railroad, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, which operated over the New York Central via trackage rights.