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Share of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railway Company, issued April 28, 1869. The predecessor railroads the CCC&I were: [2] Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railway Bellefontaine Railroad (1868) Bellefontaine and Indiana Railroad (1864) Indianapolis, Pittsburgh and Cleveland Railroad (1864)
When the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railway, controlled by the Vanderbilt family and nicknamed the "Bee Line", was merged with the CIStL&C in 1889, the new company, the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway, was similarly lengthy, and so the "Big Four
The Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway, also known as the Big Four Railroad and commonly abbreviated CCC&StL, was a railroad company in the Midwestern United States. It operated in affiliation with the New York Central system. Its primary routes were in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. At the end of 1925 it reported ...
The CISL&C operated a railroad line from Cincinnati via Indianapolis to Lafayette, being the result of an 1867 merger of the Indianapolis and Cincinnati Railroad (I&C), the Lafayette and Indianapolis Railroad (L&I), and the Cincinnati and Indiana Railroad (C&I). The three predecessor companies had been founded in 1850, 1846, and 1861, respectively.
On May 16, 1868, the CC&C merged with the Bellefontaine Railway to form the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railway. [160] The Bellefontaine Railway added 202.6 miles (326.1 km) miles of main track (118.4 miles (190.5 km) in Ohio) to the merged railroad. [176]
The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is a museum in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, based on the history of the Underground Railroad.Opened in 2004, the center also pays tribute to all efforts to "abolish human enslavement and secure freedom for all people".
While located in Noblesville, the Indiana Transportation Museum operated excursion trains on 38 miles (61 km) of a former Nickel Plate Road line originally built for the Indianapolis and Peru Railroad and, at the time of ITM's eviction, owned by the Hoosier Heritage Port Authority (HHPA), which is made up of the Indiana cities of Indianapolis, Fishers, and Noblesville.
The Union Track Railway Company was organized on May 31, 1850. Later that year, 1.60 miles (2.57 km) of main line track were turned over to the company; 0.64 miles (1.03 km) from the Peru and Indianapolis Railroad (P&I) and 0.96 miles (1.54 km) that had been jointly constructed by the three founding lines (the M&I, the TH&R, and the I&B).