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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 S&ISE can be seen on this Baltimore and Ohio Railroad map (labeled O&M). It passes through Springfield, Illinois and terminates at Shawneetown (shown as Shawnee T.), Illinois. Formed in 1870 as a consolidation of the Pana, Springfield and North Western Railroad and Illinois South Eastern Railway , the Springfield and Illinois South Eastern ...
Map of the Dixie Route to Florida and connecting lines, published by the C&EI, L&N, and NC&StL railroads, 1926. Preferred Share of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad Company, issued 25. July 1889. The Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad (reporting mark CEI) was a Class I railroad that linked Chicago to southern Illinois, St. Louis, and ...
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 ...
Steam locomotives of the Chicago and North Western Railway in the roundhouse at the Chicago, Illinois rail yards, 1942. The Timeline of U.S. Railway History depends upon the definition of a railway, as follows: A means of conveyance of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, also known as tracks.
"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 ...
The place was born as a railroad town after the Illinois Central established a station in the 1850s near Raccoon Grove, an area deeded by treaty to the descendants of Indiana fur trapper Joseph ...
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad: Eastern Illinois and St. Louis Railroad: C&EI: 1903 1905 Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad: Eldorado, Marion and Southwestern Railroad: MP: 1906 1913 Marion and Eastern Railroad: Electric City and Illinois Railway: 1889 1891 Madison, Illinois and St. Louis Railway: Elgin and State Line Railroad: CNW ...