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Tracks and depots of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad in Pana, 1913. The area around Pana was first organized as Stone Coal Precinct in 1845. The county's precincts became townships in 1856, and Stone Coal Precinct became Pana Township, Christian County, Illinois. In 1857 the village of Pana was ...
The Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad (reporting mark CEI) was a Class I railroad that linked Chicago to southern Illinois, St. Louis, and Evansville. Founded in 1877, it grew aggressively and stayed relatively strong throughout the Great Depression and two World Wars before finally being purchased by the Missouri Pacific Railroad (MP or ...
The use of the "Coal Miners" nickname corresponds to local industry, as coal mining was prevalent in the Pana, Illinois area during the era. The Pana riot, a mine worker conflict, had occurred in Pana on April 10, 1899, resulting in seven deaths. [4] [5] (1913) Railroad yard coal cars. Pana, Illinois
The Routledge Historical Atlas of the American Railroads (2001) Stover, John. History of the Illinois Central Railroad (1975) Stover, John. Iron Road to the West: American Railroads in the 1850s (1978) Turner, George E. Victory rode the rails: the strategic place of the railroads in the Civil War (1953) Ward, James Arthur. J.
The Pana riot, or Pana massacre, was a coal mining labor conflict and also a racial conflict that occurred on April 10, 1899, in Pana, Illinois, and resulted in the deaths of seven people. It was one of many similar labor conflicts in the coal mining regions of Illinois that occurred in 1898 and 1899.
Just southwest of Springfield, Illinois, in 1852 a newly established town called Virden quickly rose from the ground up with various businesses, churches, a doctor and the towns' first school. The completion of the Chicago and Alton Railroad helped prompt the establishment of Virden. Later during the spring of 1853 they also had dry goods as ...
"A Macro-scale Look at Railroad History." Railroad History (Fall/Winter 2012), Issue 207, pp 78–89. Riegel, Robert Edgar. The Story of the Western Railroads (1926) online; Saunders, Richard. Main lines: Rebirth of the North American railroads, 1970–2002 (Northern Illinois UP, 2003). Stover, John. History of the Illinois Central Railroad ...
English: Tracks and depots of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad, in Pana. Identifier: panaillinoissome00reid Title: Pana, Illinois : some luminous phases of its every-day life, present activities and future possibilities : a graphic sketch of a thriving city located on the lines of four transcontinental railroads, with water and coal, and all modern ...