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The Great Train Story is a 3,500-square-foot (330 m 2) HO scale model railroad display located in the Transportation Zone of Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. It explains the story of modern-day rail transportation in a 2,206-mile (3,550 km) journey from Seattle, Washington, through several plains states en route to Chicago, Illinois.
The old Cableway on Table Mountain in 1929. By the 1870s, Capetonians had proposed a railway to the top of Table Mountain, but plans were halted by the Anglo-Boer War.The City Council began investigating the options again in 1912, but this was in turn halted by the First World War.
Of the 1,013 miles of road owned by the carrier, 428 miles was acquired, when the carrier was formed, by the consolidation of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad Company (3) and the Chicago & Indiana Coal Railway (2) on June 6, 1894; 524 miles was acquired by purchase from predecessor companies, and 61 miles was constructed by the carrier.
Constructed by the Chicago and State Line Railway Company, Chicago Northern Junction, Ill., to Illinois-Wisconsin State line, 1905, 16.45 miles, classified as third and fourth tracks ..... From the Manitowoc, Green Bay and North-Western Railway Company, Jan. 30, 1909, constructed by that company— Manitowoc to Green Bay, Wis., 1906 36.25
The building attracted considerable attention for its pristine beauty. The accolades were universal. A German commission judged the station to be America's finest railroad station, and in 1908, the Chicago Record wrote, 'The handsomest railway station ever seen is the Burlington Station at Omaha. It is an artistic gem and looks like a Grecian ...
Illinois Central No. 790 is a preserved 2-8-0 “Consolidation” steam locomotive, built by ALCO’s Cooke Works in 1903.In 1959, No. 790 was saved from scrap and purchased by Lou Keller, and he used it to pull excursion trains in Iowa.
Chicago and North Western 1385 is an R-1 class 4-6-0 "ten-wheeler" steam locomotive owned by the Mid-Continent Railway Museum (MCRM). Built by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) in March 1907, the locomotive was one of 325 R-1s to be built for the Chicago and North Western Railroad (C&NW) throughout the 1900s. No. 1385 was mainly used to ...