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Length. 1,460 miles (2,350 kilometres) [ 1 ] The Reading Company (/ ˈrɛdɪŋ / RED-ing) was a Philadelphia -headquartered railroad that provided passenger and freight transport in eastern Pennsylvania and neighboring states from 1924 until its acquisition by Conrail in 1976. Commonly called the Reading Railroad and logotyped as Reading Lines ...
The Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railway used its own depot before gaining access to 12th and State depot in 1882. The Chicago, Terre Haute and Southeastern Railway, later part of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad ("Milwaukee Road"), never had passenger service in the Chicago area. The Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee ...
The Chicago & New York Express 1906 — 1909 Chicago, IL — Pittsburgh, PA; The Chicago & St. Louis Express 1893 — 1912 New York, NY — Columbus, OH — Chicago, IL / St. Louis, MO split into St. Louis Express and Chicago Express; The Chicago Arrow 1935 — 1949 Detroit, MI — Chicago, IL; The Chicago Day Express 1913 — 1929 Pittsburgh ...
The train's first schedule and the contest to name it. The Crusader at Reading Terminal in 1968, shortly before the train began operating with Rail Diesel Cars. By the 1930s, the Reading Company offered hourly expresses from Reading Terminal to the Central Railroad of New Jersey's Jersey City Communipaw Terminal via the Reading's New York Branch to Bound Brook where it connected with the CNJ.
Englewood Station or Englewood Union Station in Chicago, Illinois' south side Englewood neighborhood was a crucial junction and passenger depot for three railroads – the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, the New York Central Railroad, and the Pennsylvania Railroad – although it was for the eastbound streamliners of the latter two that the station was truly famous.
V. Viking (train) Categories: Chicago and North Western Railway. Named passenger trains of the United States.
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 ...
The Loop (historically Union Loop) is the 1.79-mile-long (2.88 km) circuit of elevated rail that forms the hub of the Chicago "L" system in the United States. As of April 2024, the branch served 40,341 passengers on an average weekday. [2] The Loop is so named because the elevated tracks loop around a rectangle formed by Lake Street (north side ...