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CSX Transportation owns and operates a vast network of rail lines in the United States east of the Mississippi River.In addition to the major systems which merged to form CSX – the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, Louisville and Nashville Railroad, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and Seaboard Air Line Railroad – it also owns major lines in the Northeastern United ...
The Dixie Flyer was a premier named American passenger train that operated from 1892 to 1965 via the "Dixie Route" from Chicago and St. Louis via Evansville, Nashville, and Atlanta to Florida. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] However, the train continued until 1969 as an Atlanta to Florida operation, run solely by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and its ...
Chicago to Forest–6th District (or Forest to Chicago–6th District)- a former Wabash Railroad rail line. Metra operates this line from Landers Yard to Manhattan, IL. Track removed south of Manhattan. [44] Forest to Bement–7th District (or Forest to Chicago–6th District)- a former Wabash Railroad rail line.
Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad: Central Southern Railroad: L&N: 1853 1866 Nashville and Decatur Railroad: Central of Tennessee Railway and Navigation Company: CTRN 1992 2000 Nashville and Western Railroad: Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad: ACL/ L&N: 1887 1893 Ohio River and Charleston Railway: Chattanooga Railway, Bridge ...
The Choctaw Rocket was a named passenger train operated by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad between Memphis, Tennessee, Little Rock, Oklahoma City, and Amarillo. Initially designated as train No. 51 (westbound) and train No. 52 (eastbound), it was the first diesel powered streamliner to operate out of Memphis, Tennessee , as well ...
The IC was one of the oldest Class I railroads in the United States. The company was incorporated by the Illinois General Assembly on January 16, 1836. [4] Within a few months Rep. Zadok Casey (D-Illinois) introduced a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives authorizing a land grant to the company to construct a line from the mouth of the Ohio River to Chicago and on to Galena. [5]
The train, inaugurated in 1946, originally ran from Cincinnati, Ohio, to New Orleans, Louisiana, via Louisville, Nashville, Birmingham, Montgomery and Mobile and later via a connection at Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee. A connection to Chicago was provided by the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad.
Kentucky and Tennessee Railroad: GM&O: 1870 1872 Mobile and Ohio Railroad: Kentucky and Tennessee Railroad: 1902 1904 Kentucky and Tennessee Railway: Kentucky Union Railway: L&N: 1854 1894 Lexington and Eastern Railway: Kentucky Valley Railroad: IC: 1905 1913 Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad: Kentucky and Virginia Railroad: L&N: 1915 ...