Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
By mid-century, under the leadership of Richard L. Duchossois, the company focused on building specialized freight cars, such as high-cube boxcars for auto parts, all-door boxcars for building products, gondolas, rotary-dump gondolas for coal, bulkhead flatcars and centerbeam flatcars for lumber, double-stack container cars, covered hoppers ...
The Georgian was discontinued as a named train at this point. The C&EI's sole remaining train was the two and a half hour Chicago - Danville, Illinois Danville-Chicago Flyer. [5] Miles of road operated at year end: 945 in 1925, 863 in 1967, 643 in 1970 after L&N took over its piece. Track-miles operated: 1928 in 1925, 1435 in 1967, 1067 in 1970.
[2] On the train's first anniversary the C&EI claimed total ridership of 150,000 passengers and that the train had "girdled the globe 10 times in her daily travels." [ 3 ] In the early 1950s the Meadowlark continued south to Joppa , on the Ohio River , [ 4 ] but by the middle of the decade it was cut back to West Vienna, Illinois , 6 miles (9.7 ...
The Super C was an American high-speed intermodal freight train on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway from 1968 to 1976. Dubbed the " World's Fastest Freight Train ," the all-TOFC ( trailer-on-flatcar , or "piggyback") and COFC ( container -on-flatcar) train ran about 2,200 miles (3,500 km) between Chicago, Illinois and Los Angeles ...
Numbers Original operator Manufacturer Delivered Notes 100s South Side Elevated Railroad Jackson and Sharp Company; Gilbert Car Company; Jewett Car Company: 1892–1905 The earliest trains were originally pulled by steam locomotives (Baldwin Locomotive Works Vauclain four-cylinder compound locomotives); the South Side Rapid Transit was the first to use multiple unit electric cars.
Retired – two preserved at the Illinois Railway Museum: 7650–7681 1956 Pullman: Retired – one preserved at the Illinois Railway Museum: 7867–7871 Rock Island: 1970 Pullman: 7869 now a bike car. Rest retired 7881–7885 Coach Rock Island: 1970 Pullman: Retired 7900–7901 Club Car Chicago and North Western: 1955 St. Louis: 8700–8763 ...
Discover the latest breaking news in the U.S. and around the world — politics, weather, entertainment, lifestyle, finance, sports and much more.
Chicago and Illinois Western Railroad: C&IW, CIW IC: 1903 Illinois Central Railroad: Chicago and Indiana Railroad: CINR 1979 1979 N/A Chicago, Indiana and Southern Railroad: NYC: 1906 1914 New York Central Railroad: Chicago and Indiana State Line Railway: NYC: 1880 1898 Chicago Junction Railway: Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway: CI ...