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The Ohio and Mississippi Railway (earlier the Ohio and Mississippi Rail Road), abbreviated O&M, was a railroad operating between Cincinnati, Ohio, and East St. Louis, Illinois, from 1857 to 1893. The railroad started in 1854 and paralleled the Cincinnati and Whitewater Canal. Its East St. Louis terminal near the Mississippi River was completed ...
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 ...
Peoria and Eastern Railway: Ohio and Mississippi Railroad: B&O: 1851 1862 Ohio and Mississippi Railway: Ohio and Mississippi Railway: B&O: 1861 1893 Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railway: Orion and Minersville Railroad: CB&Q: 1872 1875 St. Louis, Rock Island and Chicago Railroad: Ottawa, Oswego and Fox River Valley Railroad: CB&Q: 1852 1899
The Ohio River at Cairo is 281,500 cu ft/s (7,960 m 3 /s); [1] and the Mississippi River at Thebes, Illinois, which is upstream of the confluence, is 208,200 cu ft/s (5,897 m 3 /s). [66] The Ohio River flow is greater than that of the Mississippi River, so hydrologically the Ohio River is the main stream of the river system.
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway – 1969–1971 1925–1930s 1922–1925 1947–1969 Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad: PRR: 1917–1921 New York Central Railroad: PC: 1914–1968 1930–1968 Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad – 1910–1963 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway of Indiana: C&O: 1910 1910–1922 Baltimore and Ohio ...
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 ...
Construction continued on through La Salle, and Rock Island was reached on February 22, 1854, becoming the first railroad to connect Chicago with the Mississippi River. In Iowa, the C&RI's incorporators created (on February 5, 1853) the Mississippi and Missouri Railroad Company (M&M), to run from Davenport to Council Bluffs, and on November 20 ...
New Orleans, St. Louis and Chicago Railroad: Mississippi Eastern Railway: ME 1903 1942 N/A Mississippi, Gainesville and Tuscaloosa Railroad: GM&O: 1854 1870 Mobile and Ohio Railroad: Mississippi and Schoona Valley Railroad: 1925 1926 Mississippi and Skuna Valley Railroad: Mississippi Southern Railroad: 1922 1932 N/A Mississippi and Tennessee ...