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The Indianapolis Union Railway Company (reporting mark IU), is a terminal railroad operating in Indianapolis, Indiana.It was organized on May 31, 1850, as the Union Track Railway Company by the presidents of the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad (M&I), the Terre Haute and Richmond Railroad (TH&R), and the Indianapolis and Bellefontaine Railroad (I&B) for the purposes of establishing and ...
The railroad's assets were wholly leased to the Indianapolis Traction and Terminal Company starting in 1903, and the two companies would eventually merge under the Indianapolis Street Railway Company name in 1919. [9] [10] [11] The new company was acquired by the Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern Traction Company in 1920.
Indianapolis and St. Louis Railway: Indianapolis and St. Louis Railway: NYC: 1882 1889 Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway: Indianapolis and Sandusky Railroad: NKP: 1877 1879 Lake Erie and Western Railway: Indianapolis Southern Railroad: IC: 1906 1911 Illinois Central Railroad: Indianapolis Southern Railway: IC: 1899 1906 ...
[7] [8] Indianapolis pioneered the union station concept, first conceived in 1848. In 1849, the city's competing railroad companies cooperated to form the Indianapolis Union Railway Company to oversee operations of the world's first union depot, completed on September 20, 1853. [9] Electric streetcars on Illinois Street in 1896
On May 31, 1850, the I&B co-founded the Union Track Railway Company with the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad and the Terre Haute and Richmond Railroad. [11] The Union Track changed its name to the Indianapolis Union Railway (IUR) in 1853. [12] The IUR opened the world's first union station in Indianapolis, Indiana, on September 20, 1853.
The Indiana Railroad was created on July 2, 1930, when Midland Utilities purchased the Union Traction Company of Indiana (UTC) and transferred ownership to the IR. Union Traction (UTC) was the largest interurban system in Indiana with 410 miles (660 km) of interurban trackage and 44 miles (71 km) of streetcar lines in Anderson, Elwood, Marion and Muncie.
The Indianapolis Traction and Terminal Company was founded to own and operate the interurban terminal in downtown Indianapolis, and operate the Indianapolis Street Railway under a lease agreement for a term of 31 years. In 1892 the employees of Indianapolis Traction and Terminal Company launched a short-lived strike.
The Indianapolis Traction Terminal was a major interurban train station in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. It was the largest interurban station in the world and at its peak handled 500 trains per day and seven million passengers per year. [3] The station opened in 1904 and remained in use until 1941, when interurban operation ended.